Offering a wide array of native nectar plants will attract monarchs and many other butterflies and pollinators to your habitat all season long.įind appropriate native monarch nectar plants for your region using the Xerces Society's Monarch Nectar Guides. Include a variety of native flowering species with different bloom times to provide monarchs with the food they need to reproduce in the spring and summer and migrate in the fall. For a brief how-to flyer on planting and gardening, download MJV's Gardening for Monarchs.Īdult monarchs will drink the nectar of many flowers in addition to milkweed in fact, they need sources of nectar to nourish them throughout the entire growing season. Please plant milkweed to support monarch populations and their incredible migration! Planting milkweed is a great way to help other pollinators, providing valuable nectar resources to a diverse suite of bees and butterflies. With shifting land management practices, we have lost much milkweed from the landscape.
), and monarch butterflies need milkweed to lay their eggs. Monarchs cannot survive without milkweed their caterpillars only eat milkweed plants ( Asclepias spp.
