Don Hankins, professor of geography and planning at California State University, Chico, stands in a burn scar from the Park Fire south of Forest Ranch along Route 32 on Sept. 10, 2024. Credit: Beth ...

Claremont’s California Botanic Garden and its Grow Native Nursery have a variety of activities planned for Mother’s Day weekend, May 9 and 10, including a plant sale, a Mother’s Day Cafe with picnic ...

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 milkweed as ...

In the right location, it’s not that hard to do: Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) plants are widespread in New Hampshire in old fields and open roadsides, even popping up in less-than-scrupulously ...

Oliver Hernandez, of Overland, Kansas, 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 ...

There’s an odd pleasure that comes from climbing on a tractor and mowing a field. You can measure your accomplishment of the task in the neat parallel tracks that the tractor lays out behind the ...

Tropical milkweed was added to Florida's invasive species list in June 2025. This non-native plant hosts a parasite that harms monarch and queen butterflies. Florida has 21 native milkweed species ...

Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban ...