As I take my daily walk I stop to observe what caterpillars are munching away on my plants and try to identify the ...

This week's column includes Master Gardener advice for dealing with persistent weeds and vines in your garden, as well as ...

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Milkweed is vital for monarch butterflies, serving as the only plant for laying eggs and feeding caterpillars. Five of Wisconsin's 13 native milkweed species are listed as endangered, threatened ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has declared milkweed as the department's Rare Plant Monitoring Program's 2025 Plant of the Year on Wednesday, encouraging ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced on Wednesday that milkweed is the Rare Plant Monitoring Program's 2025 Plant of the Year. The DNR encouraged people to keep ...

Mackinac Island State Park's employees typically remove weeds near the island's airport, not plant them. But Mackinac State Historic Parks personnel planted about 400,000 common milkweed plant ...

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites, but they also migrate long distances every spring and fall, and the route from Mexico to Canada passes through the San Antonio area.

You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on outstretched wings is one of the most beautiful images of summer.

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 ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the host ...

But, in recent years, the milkweed has gained ground, and we now have some clumps of perhaps 30 plants where there used to be three. Like most people, we encourage milkweed growth for the ...