Florida is planting 15,000 milkweeds along highways to help monarch butterflies; the unused roadsides could become a 10,200-acre wildlife corridor

• Officials in Florida have planted 15,000 milkweed plants along roadsides to help monarch butterflies survive.
• If you have driven through rural roads in northern Florida recently, you may have noticed new wildflower signs and patches of orange flowers growing along the roadside.
• They are part of a large conservation effort to help monarch butterflies and many other pollinating insects.