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

that harmful pollen is often washed off or blown off milkweed leaves, and that 95% of corn pollination in Nebraska was complete before the first monarch eggs hatched. (Adult butterflies feed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone can do something to support the monarch butterfly population, Howard said. If you have a garden, Howard recommended planting native milkweed or nectar plants that bloom during the fall ...

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 ...

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

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.