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 ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

The pods should be placed in a paper bag and stored a dry place before being dropped off. The bags should also be marked with the county where they were collected. Lininger said that’s to better ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Hundreds of monarch butterflies are already getting ready to start their mass migration to warmer climates. To make the trip, which happens in the fall, the butterflies ...

The Parkview Prairie Partners distributed milkweed seeds from 500 milkweed pods at the Sunny Peace Prairie earlier this month. A light rain was falling and fierce winds swept the prairie, providing ...

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 ...

CLECELAND, Ohio -- Matt, a reader from Broadview Heights, sent me an email and a photo last month and wrote, “I was out walking my dog and I saw these plants. Are they milkweed pods, and if so, can I ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is working hard to help restore the monarch butterfly’s habitat and food source during National Pollinator Week, and they ...