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You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.
Habitat loss, climate change and the use of pesticides are to blame for the population decline of monarchs, says Karen ...
Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home is set to unveil its newly designated Monarch Butterfly Waystation on Sunday, a ...
Looking at 450 small urban gardens, researchers found more monarch eggs when there was common milkweed and milkweed that was at least 5 years old.
Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here ...
Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on milkweed – they will not survive on anything else. Native milkweeds are historically very common, although with the advent of vast fields of corn ...
Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.
On a recent afternoon, I looked up from washing dishes and out the kitchen window to see a solitary monarch butterfly ...
Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) Common milkweed is a deciduous, native, herbaceous perennial wildflower. It grows in average, well-drained soils in full sun but can tolerate poor or dry soils.
Milkweeds are perennial wildflowers native to North and South America. There are over 100 species of milkweeds, each adapted ...
Monarch butterfly numbers are down by 80% overall and remain just one-third the size needed to avoid migratory collapse.
Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.