If you see black mold on a milkweed plant, you probably wonder if the plant is diseased or dying. Find out what is causing ...

A garden can do more than look pretty—it can work like a living support system for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.

We all know milkweed is good for butterflies – particularly monarchs – but did you know that there are different types?

Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

The plant most gardeners buy to save the monarch butterfly is quietly making things worse. Every spring, nurseries and ...

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Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the milkweed as ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Though some believe tropical milkweed is responsible for declining population levels of monarch butterflies, researchers at UC Davis show that the plant neither helps nor harms the charismatic species ...

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 ...

Before dawn on an October morning, a thick fog wends its way down the many trails of Maine’s Peaks Island, coating the trees and fields in a gray blanket. A man makes his way along the trails, peering ...