Swamp Milkweed Monarchs. Monarchs favor a variety of milkweeds and in fact with variety they ll lay more eggs. By planting milkweed in your own garden landscape and throughout your community you can help reverse the fortune of these beautiful insects.
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As such milkweed is critical for the survival of monarchs. Typically monarchs choose swamp milkweed over butterfly weed but it depends on the time of the season and the conditions of the plants. Asclepias incarnata swamp milkweed.
One of the biggest factors in monarch decline is the increasing scarcity of its only caterpillar host plant.
As such milkweed is critical for the survival of monarchs. Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on the leaves of milkweed the only host plant for this iconic butterfly species. Without milkweed monarchs can t successfully reproduce and the species declines. We ve been seeing many more swamp milkweed beetles the last few years.
