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  2. Asclepias - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, it is most often suggested to grow milkweeds that are native to the geographical area they are planted in to prevent negative impacts on monarch butterflies. [25] [26] Monarch caterpillars do not favor butterfly weed (A. tuberosa), perhaps because the leaves of that milkweed species contain very little cardenolide. [27]

  3. Asclepias syriaca - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. [2] [3] It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. [4] It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds ...

  4. Monarch butterfly - Wikipedia

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    Monarch butterfly caterpillar D. p. plexippus Piedra Herrada, Mexico. The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. [6] Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown. [7]

  5. Are tussock and monarch caterpillars in a fight over milkweed ...

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    Like most people, we encourage milkweed growth for the endangered monarch butterflies. A milkweed tussock moth caterpillar feasting on a milkweed plant, displaying their distinctive black, orange ...

  6. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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    The eastern monarch migration largely depends upon only three milkweed species: common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), green antelope horn milkweed , and antelope horns milkweed (A. asperula). [22] Butterfly gardens and monarch waystations in eastern and central North America should therefore feature one or more of those species, depending upon ...

  7. How a tweak to Ohio law might help save monarch butterflies

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    In 2017, the U.S. Geological Service reported that as many as 1.8 billion additional milkweed stems would be needed in North America to restore the monarch butterfly population. It takes about 28. ...

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