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 ...

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

Q: We have a large number of these black and orange bugs on our milkweed plants. Do they hurt the swallowtail butterflies? Will they kill our milkweed? A: Oncopeltus fasciatus, or large milkweed bug, ...

Today, you meet milkweeds, the only food source for monarch caterpillars — and the harmless milkweed bugs that frequent the plants. You also meet the not-so-nice invasive thorny olive. The insight ...

Bugs are everywhere pollinating our favorite flowers, fruits and vegetables, and serving lunch for the birds. They provide an important service for the food supply for people, animals, insects and ...

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 ...

Look closer and you’ll discover a thriving world of wonder on each milkweed plant you find along your late summer and fall journeys. Milkweed is well known as a must-have plant for attracting monarchs ...

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Along with ripe strawberries, blueberries and juneberries, plants of July differ from those of a month earlier. The roadside floral display of July is quite different. The white daisy, orange and ...

Look closer and you'll discover a thriving world of wonder on each milkweed plant you find along your late summer and fall journeys. Milkweed is well known as a must-have plant for attracting monarchs ...