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Then, coastal sage, buckwheat, wild grape, wildflowers, milkweed and other native plants will be planted on the roughly one-acre habitat.

Testing by the Xerces Society and the University of Nevada-Reno found that milkweed leaves, the main food source for the monarch caterpillar, were contaminated by 64 pesticides.

Threats to the monarchs include the loss and degradation of habitat used for breeding, migration and overwintering, including milkweed plants they rely on as a place to lay their eggs.

And of course, there are her abundant stands of narrow leaf milkweed — the first native plants she added that are now nearly five feet tall.

He also advocates planting native milkweeds like narrow leaf and woollypod, summer bloomers that will attract lots of pollinators, especially the endangered Western monarch butterflies.