Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

Meet the milkweed tussock moth and caterpillar. Identifying all 11,000 species of North American moths would be a monumental challenge, but some basic groups are easy to recognize.

For example, by planting milkweed, you’re also nurturing the milkweed tussock moth and milkweed beetle, whose larvae feed on its leaves like monarchs, and pollinators including other butterflies ...