Do Butterflies Like Milkweed. Butterflies benefit from the food offered by milkweeds and in return they do help the plants with pollination but they are not the most successful pollinators of milkweeds. It does not require cold stratification like many milkweed seeds do and it produces a lot of collectible seeds each summer.
There i read comments claiming that milkweed is a noxious weed just like kudzu and how best to eradicate it with 2 4d but followed by polite suggestions from obvious blue staters like couldn t you leave just a little bit for the butterflies. It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar it is also a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies as well as the dogbane tiger moth milkweed tussock moth and. Monarchs are fascinating creatures found in both eastern and western coastal regions of the united states.
Monarchs favor a variety of milkweeds and in fact with variety they ll lay more eggs.
Until you identify your first monarch butterfly egg all i can do is encourage you to keep looking and say that when you see one you will know. Milkweed asclepias spp is a family of perennial flowering plants that are native to africa and north and south america they are called milkweed because the plants contain latex a milky white fluid. It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar it is also a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies as well as the dogbane tiger moth milkweed tussock moth and. Because my milkweed patch is right outside i have been fortunate enough to see the butterflies actually lay the eggs.