A Need for Milkweed

Do you have the power to save a species?  Yes!!! In a press release on Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 the United States Fish and Wildlife Services ruled that the listing of the Monarch Butterfly [...]

Planting Beauty and Butterfly Food

Imagine if your body could only survive by eating one plant. And to make matters more complicated, that plant is getting harder and harder to find growing in the wild. How will you survive?! [...]

Helping Monarchs on their Great Migration

Monarch butterfly (Photo: Sarah Elam)
Monarch butterflies flutter among a sea of yellow goldenrod, driven by an internal compass to make their way south to Mexico. This great migration is built into their bones, well technically into their thorax. [...]