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.

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 ...

Vendetti said it took about three years for her milkweed to really flourish and once the plants rooted they come back every year. Once the last group of caterpillars become butterflies, Vendetti ...

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 ...

A monarch caterpillar munches on milkweed in the kitchen of Kay MacNeil’s home in Frankfort. “Monarchs must have milkweed to survive. If you don’t grow it, they won’t come,” she said.

Ryan Pankau teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about milkweed Want to turn your yard into a butterfly haven? Planting ...

Milkweed, Hone said, is the monarch’s host plant here in the northeast U.S. and is the primary source of food for its caterpillars. Black swallow wort is a distant cousin of the sand vine, which ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature.

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 ...

Not only can the caterpillars consume the toxin, they also store it in their bodies, making them distasteful to predators. This turns milkweed into a powerful ally in the caterpillar's struggle to ...

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 ...