The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed.

WILLMAR--The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its wintering ...

Without milkweed, monarch butterflies would not be able to reproduce, shrinking their population.

Submitted On June 8, more than 250 milkweed plants were planted by Three Rivers Land Trust staff and volunteers to improve habitat quality and food resources for local monarch butterfly populations.

In the last 15 years, the monarch butterfly populations in North America have dwindled to "alarmingly low" levels, University of Guelph associate professor and ecologist Ryan Norris. He was part of a ...

Extreme heat and dry weather is killing off food sources for monarch butterflies, an expert warns. The lack of food will make fall migration for the endangered pollinators particularly difficult said ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Plant some milkweed in your yard this year — and you can help save the monarch butterfly.

Wildlife groups in Nebraska are on a mission to save monarch butterflies. They’re looking for help from every gardener, farmer and landowner in the area.

Butterfly enthusiasts are also encouraging homeowners and gardeners to plant milkweed, which produces their favorite food.

The monarch life cycle begins each spring when it deposits eggs on milkweed leaves. But this dependency of monarchs on milkweeds as food is not reciprocated, and milkweeds do all they can to poison or ...

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