Mixed-Species Gardens Increase Monarch Oviposition without Increasing Top-Down Predation
Monarch butterfly populations have declined by over 80% in the last 20 years.Conservation efforts focus on the creation of milkweed habitats to mitigate this decline.Previous research has found monarchs lay more eyevan 163 eggs per milkweed stem in urban gardens than natural habitats and recent work identified specific garden designs that make urba