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Some research indicates that certain types of milkweed such as Asclepias Curassavica the tropical variety sold at home ...

But monarchs cannot survive without milkweed, as they eat only milkweed, and it is the only plant on which monarch butterflies will lay their eggs. Shifting priorities in land management has resulted ...

Like many other insects, a single female monarch can lay hundreds of eggs. And because milkweed still is readily available, monarchs appear to be able to bounce back each year despite fewer numbers of ...

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly ... forest degradation in the butterfly's overwintering sites Climate change punctuated by episodic extreme ...

Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.

Monarch butterflies are poisonous to predators because of the chemicals in the milkweed they eat as caterpillars ... A typical monarch life span (from egg to adult) is 2 to 6 weeks, but migrating ...

Monarch butterfly populations have ... you want to be sure to cut your milkweed down in October,” she said. “Otherwise, the monarchs will lay eggs before making it to Mexico.