Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...

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 ...

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Oliver Hernandez’s ...

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 ...

Sometimes I feel like a broken record of sorts coming back to similar subject matter that folks might be sick of hearing about, but I also try to target this column to address some of the more common, ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

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 ...

In spring, summer and fall, outdoor colors surround us — from the butterflies, to the birds, to the flower blossoms and changing hues of leaves. But, when November comes around, all seems brown and ...