Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.

Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.

The Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative (OPHI) is collecting milkweed pods due to the decline in the monarch butterfly population and its recent designation as an endangered species. OPHI is ...

As their name suggests, many milkweed species produce a milky-white substance that can be seen if their stem is broken.

The Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District is the local collection station for mature common milkweed seed pods in Lucas County to help the monarch population.

The Midwest needs to plant milkweed, and a lot of it, over the next 18 years to ensure monarch butterflies survive, preferably in sufficient numbers to sustain their phenomenal migration.

The endangered monarch butterfly lays its eggs in milkweed plants, but there's not as many of those plants around as there used to be.

Planting milkweed is one of the easiest ways to support monarch butterfly populations, but this slip-up could actually cause ...

Long before humans invented drones, Mother Nature had already created the perfect air-delivery method. I witnessed it this week when the fat pods on the milkweed plant in my backyard exploded in ...

Milkweed patches got more notice from passing insects than from us during the warm season and bees, wasps, flies, moths and butterflies all gathered on these plants.

He had indeed found milkweed pods, and assuming he obtained permission from the property owner to harvest them, they could be planted in a Northeast Ohio yard in one of three ways.