CHICAGO (WCIA) — A new study finds anyone with a green thumb, urban or rural, can help save the population of a beloved insect. Scientists are worried for monarch butterflies, the orange and black ...

It’s garden planning time. If planning a flower garden to attract monarch butterflies, there’s interesting research from the University of Kentucky about placement of milkweed in gardens. The research ...

Perhaps you’ve read about and noticed the declining numbers of monarch butterflies? If you’d like to help, and you want to attract more monarchs to your garden, consider adding milkweed (Asclepias spp ...

When artist Shawn Hall took a close look at the flowering plants in Crescent Park, she noticed something that made her curious. “I was looking at the milkweed and there was a monarch caterpillar on it ...

When Lorraine Kells first came upon these two sprawling Chicago Park District flower beds near Diversey Harbor, she saw weeds and cigarette butts. But eight years later, a dazzling array of ...

The orange and black Monarch butterfly is a well known and recognizable species. But in 2022, it was listed as endangered. As a group, these spectacular migratory creatures move about 2,485 miles ...

Plenty of gardeners have heard of common milkweed. Many probably consider it the No. 1 monarch host plant, as well-known for its flowers as for its caterpillar-favorite leaves. While common milkweed ...

If you are planting milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, you are already ahead of the game. But even the most well-meaning gardeners can make critical mistakes when planting milkweed that may send ...

What’s special about milkweed? Milkweed (genus Asclepias) is the host plant, the only source of food, for the monarch caterpillar. If the monarch butterfly does not find milkweed, it will not lay any ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This perennial herb (yep, this pretty flowering plant is technically an herb) should be on every gardener ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...

On a recent warm afternoon, a monarch butterfly landed on a milkweed flower growing at the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island. The monarch’s orange and black wings opened and closed slowly as it ...