If you want to draw in pollinators year after year in the spring, consider planting these colorful flowers and creating your ...

Nature is full of interesting relationships between animals and plants. Insects rely heavily on different plants for food and ...

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites, but they also migrate long distances every spring and fall, and the route from Mexico to Canada passes through the San Antonio area.

It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant ...

If you are planting milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, you are already ahead of the game. But even the most well-meaning gardeners can make critical mistakes when planting milkweed that may send ...

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Oliver Hernandez’s ...

Q: My milkweed has orange bugs on its seed pods. Are they harmful? No, they’re not going to damage the plant enough to warrant intervention. These are native insects, and they are part of the ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...

Conservationists and horticulturalists are encouraging gardeners to plant native milkweed species to support declining monarch butterfly populations. While milkweed is the only host plant for monarch ...