Q: My milkweed has orange bugs on its seed pods. Are they harmful? No, they’re not going to damage the plant enough to warrant intervention. These are native insects, and they are part of the ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Q: I planted milkweed last year in order to attract monarchs to my yard. This year I had a bunch of caterpillars, then I found milkweed assassin bugs. I have not seen any caterpillars since. My ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Each year, a coalition of volunteer community scientists and conservation organizations collects migratory monarch butterfly population data as part of their Western Monarch Count ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Milkweed has received a lot of attention in recent years, mainly due to its status as a host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars. monarch caterpillars rely exclusively on milkweed ...

Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. 2004. "Effect of captivity on genetic variance for five traits in the large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)." Heredity, 93, (1) 51–61.