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Why are we protecting it?
Monarch conservation programs and awareness and have started inspiring people to protect milkweed.Â
Monarchs lay eggs on only milkweed
As caterpillars, they eat milkweed for food, making it a vital plant for monarchs.
Monarchs are great pollinators, and therefore people want to protect monarchs by protecting the plants.
Monarchs are also important to Mexican culture.
Who is protecting it?
Milkweed conservation programs protect milkweed by asking people to plant it or stop using pesticides.
A lot of people help the effort to protect milkweed.
Ways to protect it
Staying away from tropical milkweed, tropical milkweed messes up the monarch migration and gives them O.E.
Spreading your milkweed around the garden to protect from milkweed pests.
Fencing in the milkweed.
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