There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

A kaleidoscope of orange-and-yellow monarch butterflies soon will return to Michigan as they finish their overwintering in Mexico and Central America and begin fluttering home to breed. "Monarchs have ...