Many creatures can be found in the milkweed, from monarchs to milkweed beetles, from aphids to lady beetles. Birds, such as the yellow warbler and the indigo bunting, often use milkweed seeds as ...

If you were to try counting all of the trees on the University of Iowa campus on this Earth Day, you’d need to be able to count to eight-thousand. The man who leads the team that cares for them all ...

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 ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Want to do your part to help reverse the dramatic ...

Habitat loss for this iconic black and orange butterfly, especially along its migratory routes, is devastating monarch populations. Help a winged friend out by planting milkweed. Just a few months ago ...

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We hear a lot about planting flowers and milkweed for monarch butterflies and pollinators these days. The University has come out with research that indicates if we are going to be planting milkweed ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Dwindling monarch butterfly populations have prompted some gardeners to ...

QUESTION: A vigorous vining plant has been growing in our tree since summer. It produced some fairly attractive yellow flowers followed by a pod. Recently, we noticed the pods are splitting open and ...

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 ...