The effect of grazing by cattle, mowing, and prescribed fire on native milkweed was conducted on pastureland in the Blackland Prairie ecoregion. The effect of seasonal mowing and seasonal burns on ...
Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the ...
Among the leading causes of this long-term trend are: Deforestation and forest degradation in the butterfly's overwintering sites Climate change punctuated by episodic extreme weather conditions in ...
Juday wants land managers, highway officials, gardeners and others to start planting milkweed everywhere they can – from flower beds and fallow fields to roadside ditches and freeway rights of way.
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...