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Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Western monarch butterflies cluster at the Pacific Grove Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in 2016. (Connie Masotti) To the editor: As you note in your editorial, planting milkweed is critical to support ...

Milkweed is famed for being an important plant for the Monarch butterfly, and it may surprise you to know that late fall is an ideal time to start perennial varieties by sowing outdoors. It does work ...

State transportation departments should plant milkweed in highway ditches. This simple step could help save the continent's population of monarch butterflies. Milkweed is essential to the monarchs' ...

Conservationists have long blamed farmers' use of pesticides for decimating the milkweed that monarch caterpillars like to eat. But scientists say... Monarch butterflies are disappearing. Populations ...

One of the most widely recognized butterflies in North America, the monarch, is disappearing fast. Most of that decline is blamed on changing land use, but property owners can help shore up the ...

Ever since I wrote a column lamenting the lack of monarch butterflies – the butterfly population the last two years is the lowest it’s been in 20 years – I’ve been getting calls from people wanting to ...