Linda Auld, affectionately known as the "NOLA Bug Lady," travels around Louisiana to give talks and presentations about butterfly gardening. Now, she is spearheading the renewal of the Frank ...

Louisiana offers a variety of native flowers, like hibiscus and irises, to choose from. Now that spring is here, gardeners are tending to their yards, adding native flowers in time for peak ...

Monarch butterflies rely exclusively on milkweed plants as a food source for their larvae. In short, without milkweeds there would be no monarch butterflies. Native Americans used stem fibers of ...

The silverspot butterfly, a species native to the U.S., is inching closer to extinction, prompting the federal protections as its numbers continue to decline.

Each month, they walked through 15 three mile-long routes and recorded the number of milkweed plants (both native and non-native) on the roadside and in people’s front yards. They also counted monarch ...

Activities like ranching, agricultural work and gardening are protected by language that allows for the management of milkweed and nectar plants, even though it could result in monarch deaths.