Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

OTSEGO, Minn. - Here's a chance to join the monarch mission and earn a few bucks while you're at it. Collect a five-gallon bucket of milkweed pods and Minnesota Native Landscapes will either pay you ...

Long before humans invented drones, Mother Nature had already created the perfect air-delivery method. I witnessed it this week when the fat pods on the milkweed plant in my backyard exploded in ...

The pods should be placed in a paper bag and stored a dry place before being dropped off. The bags should also be marked with the county where they were collected. Lininger said that’s to better ...

Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed plants so the larvae have a food source once they hatch. The Ohio Department of Transportation is helping to collect milkweed seed pods, with the idea of ...

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 ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

LISBON –If you plant them they will come. Milkweed, that is! Milkweed and Monarch butterflies have an essential connection because the monarchs only lay their eggs on the leaves of the milkweed plant.

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 ...

With the cold and snow of late November, we get to witness the onset of the chilly season in the Northland. Each year we observe this seasonal change during the second half of this cooling month.

Fall is a great time to harvest and sow milkweed seeds. For monarchs, milkweeds are essential for survival as its caterpillar feeds solely on milkweed leaves, and the adult butterflies lay eggs on the ...