In recent years, our unique Carpenter Natural Area in Cortez has endured various questionable management practices, particularly the cutting of native milkweed, sumac and willows, along the main path.

Rooting milkweed cuttings is also a good way to build your stock. Cut pieces of stem with three to four nodes, wash the sap off the ends and dip the bottom in a rooting hormone. Root it in water or ...

TEANECK — One day the milkweed was there, fulfilling its critical role as both a host and a food source for monarch butterflies, enabling these near-endangered insects to survive and reproduce. The ...

Milkweed is the perfect plant for butterfly enthusiasts who want to attract monarch butterflies. When a female monarch discovers the milkweed, she lays her eggs on it. Once the eggs hatch, the small ...

Monarch butterflies have no choice in the matter: their existence is completely dependent on milkweed. And in recent years, the decline of milkweed in fields and gardens has brought a correlated ...

An international effort is under way to conserve populations of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L. [Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae]). Monarchs complete an impressive migration each year, flying from ...

It has been an extraordinary year for monarch butterflies in our area. Gardeners throughout the state have been sharing stories of milkweed being eaten down to stubs and loads of fat caterpillars ...