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 ...

“I planted a milkweed plant a few weeks back. It’s growing well but it has developed an infestation of small creatures, maybe one-sixteenth of an inch long, who also leave a shiny reflective spotty ...

Milkweed is the perfect plant for butterfly enthusiasts who want to attract monarch butterflies. When a female monarch discovers the milkweed, she lays her eggs on it. Once the eggs hatch, the small ...

"Swamp milkweed is one good choice, because it's easier to grow than some other native milkweeds, and it's native to much of the eastern U.S. In places where tropical milkweed already occurs, it can ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California. A ...

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed plants to ...

Florida is home to 22 types of native milkweeds - the plant everyone wants to buy to help save the monarch butterfly - but good luck finding them in local stores. You'll find lots of milkweed for sale ...

Some monarch butterfly researchers are questioning Marin County and other counties’ recent decision to ban tropical milkweed sales as a way to protect the state’s dwindling populations of the iconic ...

Scientists believe that increased plantings of Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as ‘tropical milkweed’, in the U.S. South has prompted a population of formerly migrating Monarchs to overwinter.

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to figure out which of six native milkweed species is the easiest to grow, what are the most successful growing techniques, and which is the ...

Scientists have unraveled the sequence of gene mutations that enabled the monarch butterfly to thrive on toxic milkweed. By Carl Zimmer The caterpillar of the monarch butterfly eats only milkweed, a ...

Some monarch butterfly researchers are questioning some counties’ recent decision to ban tropical milkweed sales as a way to protect the state’s dwindling populations of the iconic orange-and-black ...