There's something genuinely wonderful about watching a swallowtail drift across your garden and land on a bloom you planted ...

From sago palms to milkweed, there are toxic plants all around us. But they're not all monsters. Here's how to live with them ...

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 ...

If you've driven down two-lane highways in rural parts of North Florida recently, you may have noticed a spate of new signs ...

Also known as oleander aphids, milkweed aphids are not native to North America; they originated in the Mediterranean region. In their native land, these aphids primarily fed on oleander plants, but in ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Most gardeners recognize milkweed immediately as a butterfly attracter, but there’s a complex community that revolves around this prolific plant that extends well beyond the monarch. Milkweed may ...

Thousands of seeds are floating across fields this month, like tiny paratroopers dangling from silky parachutes. They're milkweed seeds, launched from ripe seed pods. If they land on target, new ...

Oliver Hernandez 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 leaf. Across the Midwest ...

The work to plant 15,000 milkweed plants along Florida roadsides is part of an initiative led by the University of Illinois ...