Swamp milkweed, a member of the milkweed family, plays a vital role in supporting the monarch butterfly population. Its flowers, which attract bees and butterflies, bloom in shades of soft mauve, pink ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monarch butterfly on a pink milkweed bloom - Annie Otzen/Getty Images Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an ...

Common milkweed provides nectar for butterflies, and is the only food source for monarch caterpillars, but is too aggressive for your garden?

The swamp milkweed is one of the best to plant to encourage monarch butterfly population, but this variety of milkweed can spread out and take over the garden. (Submitted photo / Cindy Meyer) I ...

Monarchs, as caterpillars, prefer the leaves of milkweed. Milkweed produces glycoside toxins to deter animals from eating them, monarch have evolved immunity to these toxins. When they feed, monarch ...

LISBON –If you plant them they will come. Milkweed, that is! Milkweed and Monarch butterflies have an essential connection because the monarchs only lay their eggs on the leaves of the milkweed plant.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Monarch caterpillar season has returned to Northeast Ohio, and this year our family has adopted 13 baby caterpillars, or “cats.” As they approach chrysalis stage, these very hungry ...

Did you know that monarch butterflies are the only butterflies known to make a two-way migration like birds? That’s right: ...

An Iowa State University test plot near Muscatine is helping to determine which kind of milkweed is best to plant. That is, the one that will grow the best and attract the most monarch butterflies.

Q: I planted several milkweed plants on the edge of a butterfly flower garden and some have now sent up additional plants within the garden itself. Will this be a problem in the garden itself it there ...