Our region’s milkweeds, including the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), swamp milkweed (A. incarnata), and butterfly weed (A. tuberosa), are amazingly complex and beautiful plants best known ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

The film "Monarch Butterfly Story" explores the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, detailing its stages from egg to caterpillar, to pupa, and finally to butterfly. It highlights the butterfly's ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

Today, you meet milkweeds, the only food source for monarch caterpillars — and the harmless milkweed bugs that frequent the plants. You also meet the not-so-nice invasive thorny olive. The insight ...

I remember an early summer road trip, it was 1982. The route: Meriden, Connecticut, to Middlebury, Vermont, and seemingly everywhere in between. A southern boy botanizing in New England always finds ...

Beyond the monarch, lovely nectar-laden, fragrant flowers attract and nourish a diversity of other butterflies, moths, native bees, honeybees, wasps, flies, beetles and ants. Along with their sap, ...

The milkweed bug does some plant damage even though it primarily eats the seeds of milkweed. However, cultivating milkweed plants is important for our monarch butterflies? survival. Spray one of the ...