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 ...

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 ...

"Also, kind of surprisingly, that older, more established milkweed plants did a lot better, they were more likely to see eggs than younger plants." In addition, having a variety of blooming plants was ...

Monarchs, as caterpillars, prefer the leaves of milkweed. Milkweed produces glycoside toxins to deter animals from eating them, monarch have evolved immunity to these toxins. When they feed, monarch ...