Milkweed is more than just a beautiful addition to your garden. Dubbed the monarch butterfly magnet, this versatile plant ...

An initiative through a Durham church invites residents to plant local native milkweed throughout the community.

The iconic orange-and-black butterflies may be on the verge of collapse, after scientists documented a troubling decline this ...

Migrating monarch butterfly populations have been on the decline for years. This year has been different, with a significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues ...

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

Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: upgrading its toxins to ...

Oliver Hernandez, of Overland, Kansas, poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a ...

The arrival of monarchs in the Northeast is one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles. Their grueling journey pays off, but it’s a miraculous flight that requires multiple generations of butterflies.

QUEBEC CITY – For generations, North American farmers have despised milkweed and done their best to rid their lands of it. "I hate to have milkweed in my strawberry field," Nathalie Leonard says from ...

Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban ...