TreeHugger

The Monarch Butterfly Needs Milkweed to Survive. Here's How to Get Seeds

Habitat loss for this iconic black and orange butterfly, especially along its migratory routes, is devastating monarch populations. Help a winged friend out by planting milkweed. Just a few months ago ...
Yahoo

Here's How You Can Get Free Milkweed Seeds to Help Monarch Butterflies

A man in Omaha, Bob Gittins, took on a huge role in trying to save the monarchs. According to the Omaha World-Herald, after having trouble finding milkweed plants in stores, Gittins started buying the ...
AOL

The Secret to a Thriving Butterfly Garden: Milkweed 101

"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 ...
West Central Tribune

Local milkweed seeds helping butterfly population

WILLMAR--The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its wintering ...
Bustle

Here’s The Plant To Grow If You Want To Create A Butterfly Garden In Your Yard

There are few summer sights more delightful than that of butterflies spotted flitting back and forth amongst a beautiful garden — and given that monarch butterflies in particular have been in greater ...
Hosted on MSN

You can harvest milkweed seeds in late summer to grow your butterfly-friendly plant collection for free – when and how to collect this bounty

Milkweed is a fantastic plant for pollinators, and one particularly adored by Monarch butterflies. But the Monarchs' population is declining, and gardeners need to stand up and do whatever they can to ...
Quad-City Times

Harvest milkweed pods; plant monarch butterfly garden

The Midwest needs to plant milkweed, and a lot of it, over the next 18 years to ensure monarch butterflies survive, preferably in sufficient numbers to sustain their phenomenal migration. In Illinois, ...
NOLA.com

Native milkweed or tropical milkweed, which is best? Slidell butterfly garden experiments with both

A Monarch butterfly feeds on a milkweed plant. (NOLA.com|The Times-Picyaune archive) A new butterfly garden at Camp Salmen Nature Park in Slidell is experimenting with varieties of milkweed to see ...
Chicago Tribune

Frankfort’s ‘Butterfly Lady’ sending out milkweed seeds in effort to help endangered monarchs

Kay MacNeil, of Frankfort, describes herself as “a seriously deranged lover of caterpillars and butterflies.” As a child, she came down with a terrible rash on her arms. Her family physician ...
Simplistically Living on MSN

You Can Get Free Milkweed Seeds to Help Save The Butterflies. Here's How.

In case you haven’t heard, it is now more important than ever to help save the butterflies and the bees. With that being said ...
AG Week

Minnesota milkweed seeds helping butterfly population

WILLMAR, Minn. -- The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its ...