Bringing Back the Monarch Butterfly: How Milkweed and City Gardens Can Help

Feb 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By The Field Museum of Chicago staff

Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, are some of the most recognizable insects in North America, but they are in trouble because their caterpillars can eat only the leaves of milkweed, a native wildflower that has increasingly disappeared.