Monarchs have been in decline for 20 years, spurring conservation efforts by scientists and everyday people, who grow milkweed in gardens, fields and parkways. Got milkweed? Field Museum study ...

An early summer field trip, deep into a swamp in Allendale ... Except for this one. Swamp milkweed, Asclepias perennis, is a native species of southern bottomland forests, and it’s one of ...

Photo by Becky Nystrom Our region’s milkweeds, including the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), swamp milkweed (A ... beneficial predatory wasps and parasitoid insects that attack field and garden ...

The swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata ... oviposit on aspen. Track and field: Niwot’s Isaiah Richart isn’t letting his disabilities keep from anything — including gold ...

Q. All of my milkweed plants have started turning yellow and wilting, then they die. I think it is swamp milkweed; it does come back every year. I have raised monarchs for years and never had this ...

Swamp milkweed is one of the best attractors of the Monarch Butterfly which feeds on the flowers and lays its eggs on the plants. The long and narrow opposite leaves then provide a ready food ...

Most milkweed plants grow best in full sun, while common milkweed is happiest in well-draining soil, and swamp milkweed may become stressed and prone to aphids if it’s not grown in moist earth.

Hear said an initiative by Nature NB, which allows New Brunswickers to sign up online to receive a package of free swamp milkweed seeds to grow at home, is a great program. "It'd be lovely to ...

She watched in wonder as a butterfly emerged and shook its wings dry. She's now distributed roughly 1,000 swamp milkweed seedlings to people in the Halifax region through her Downtown Dartmouth ...

Such gardens are at the heart of a new Field Museum study ... that’s at least 5 years old, having more milkweed plants, planting swamp milkweed and having an array of nectar-producing flowering ...

Monarchs have been in decline for 20 years, spurring conservation efforts by scientists and everyday people, who grow milkweed in gardens, fields and parkways. ...