Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

Butterfly fans, take a breath. I know it’s officially spring and we’re all pounding on nursery doors, anxious to plant some California native milkweed to help the endangered Western monarch ...

Which explains why MacNeil is intensifying her campaign to get area gardeners to grow milkweed. The plant’s leaves are the ... Tiny eggs sit like cream-colored dots on green leaves kept moist ...

Native milkweed plants — the kind good for butterflies — are coming out of dormancy and starting to sprout, so be patient. Southern California gardeners should be able to buy narrow-leaf ...

If you've planted milkweed, pay attention in February and March, when monarch butterflies lay tiny cream-colored eggs. Their larvae are pale gray or light green and sport a pattern of yellow ...

During several visits to South Boulder Creek Trail recently, monarch butterflies and western tiger swallowtails, Papilio rutulus, were nectaring on swamp milkweed.This is common knowledge — online ...

Jeff Mitton Natural Selections. About 200 species of milkweeds are native to North America, South America and Africa, and all are in the genus Asclepias.