At Sycamore Canyon School in Newbury Park, students planted a milkweed garden four years ago to provide food and shelter for both the adult butterflies and the caterpillars.

Pollinator garden plant giveaway to be held this Saturday at Legacy Park On a mission to save pollinators one garden at a ...

Milkweed is considered an essential food source for adult monarchs, and it is also the one and only type of plant that the caterpillars can feed from. ... and shelter for them.

Both the milkweed tussock and the monarch caterpillars eat the cardiac glycoside-laden milky sap of milkweed and have evolved mechanisms to retain those toxins in their bodies after metamorphosing ...

Both the milkweed tussock and the monarch caterpillars eat the cardiac glycoside-laden milky sap of milkweed and have evolved mechanisms to retain those toxins in their bodies after metamorphosing ...

Their caterpillars exclusively eat the leaves of a native wildflower called milkweed and the amount of it growing in North America has plummeted. In the state of Illinois alone, milkweed numbers ...

Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed plants and the young caterpillars feed exclusively on them. Butterfly conservationists encourage people to plant them where they can to promote monarch populations.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation is bringing back a popular program aimed at helping butterflies in celebration of National Pollinator Week.