All you need to do is plant native milkweed plants on your property. Female monarchs exclusively lay their eggs on milkweed, and, as mentioned above, it's the only thing caterpillars will eat.

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Even small-scale plantings can help fuel monarchs on their migration. A garden with just 10 milkweed plants and a mix of spring-to-fall blooming nectar flowers can provide life-saving resources.

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites, but they also migrate long distances every spring and fall, and the route from Mexico to Canada passes through the San Antonio area.

Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed plants and the young caterpillars feed exclusively on them. Butterfly conservationists encourage people to plant them where they can to promote monarch populations.

Migrating monarch butterflies need habitat of food, water and shelter so that these pollinators can survive their long migration.

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Monarchs favor milkweed, but Bailey said what attracts the butterflies to eat nectar is flowering plants, Bailey said. In Oklahoma, the monarchs come twice – April or May and August, Bailey said.

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