Monarch butterfly finds a tasty milkweed for nectaring and laying of eggs.

Please click on image to ENLARGE view of monarch butterfly nectaring on butterfly milkweed across a vegetated ditch on Arkansas 265 south of Fayetteville. Plants of the various species of milkweed are the only plants upon which a monarch caterpiller can feed and survive to become a young butterfly. Mowing milkweed in late spring, summer and through October must be avoided to allow monarchs to survive as a species.