How to grow it, pests, varieties, etc.
It has been a very successful spring and summer here in Solano County, spreading the word about how to support the Monarch Butterfly population locally and spotting many of these iconic insects floating through our yards this year. Fall is the season to clean up the milkweed garden, as the last few caterpillars pupate and …
Have you noticed tiny yellow/orange dots covering the stems of your milkweed? They are oleander aphids, and a heavy infestation can have serious consequences. Sometimes called “garden vampires”, they drink the sap from the plant, weakening and sometimes killing it. The life is literally sucked out of the plant, and can reduce the viable seeds …
Aphid Wars! How to control these milkweed-infesting pests Read More »
Are we doing more harm than good by providing this non-native milkweed to the western US monarch population? We here at Monarch Milkweed Project strongly discourage planting Tropical Milkweed. Because this variety of milkweed doesn’t die off in the winter but survives the mild winter climate of the West, its year round availability encourages the …
Tropical Milkweed – Asclepias Curassavica – bad for western monarchs Read More »
