Bumble bees and butterflies are in trouble. They’re declining in part because there are fewer places where they can find food and shelter. There is widespread concern about what this will mean for the ...

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Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the pollinator's population and sole source of food and habitat, milkweed, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — June 16 kicks off National Pollinator Week and the Tennessee Department of Transportation wants to help restore and preserve habitats of Monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - The Native Prairie Project, which attracted pollinators like monarch butterflies, is no longer outside an Ohio zoo because it has been mowed down. Toledo Deputy Mayor ...

More than a dozen volunteers planted 850 milkweeds throughout the Spring Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday as part of a budding monarch butterfly habitat conservation project. Through a grant from ...

As reported last week, zizotes, showy, antelope horn, green and butterfly weed native milkweeds all germinated well in the spring when seeded in containers. Unlike tropical milkweed, none of the ...

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to figure out which of six native milkweed species is the easiest to grow, what are the most successful growing techniques, and which is the ...

For years, home gardeners have been told to do one thing to save monarch butterflies: plant milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. And for years, that’s what Linda Barber Auld, known as ...