It's hard to believe that milkweed has nearly disappeared from Vermont's landscape in just a few short years. In the Green Mountain State, corn crops are everywhere and along the edges of those fields ...

A proper pocket prairie mixes host plants for larva with nectar plants (for adult butterflies, moths, bees and hummingbirds) and shelter ... hungry caterpillars, who chomp milkweed leaves for ...

Milkweed is the only plant monarch caterpillars will eat, and the adult monarchs will lay their eggs on, according to the National Wildlife Federation. And with a declining habitat, it is ...