The earth is crawling and buzzing with insects, which in early July are at their peak abundance, making them easy to see and ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that scientists know of. (And many more that have not even been discovered.) How ...

"Congratulations! Such a great feeling." Homeowner shares stunning photos of long-awaited visitors to backyard garden: 'It's ...

Looking at 450 small urban gardens, researchers found more monarch eggs when there was common milkweed and milkweed that was at least 5 years old.

Milkweed can grow in a wide variety of environments from roadsides and abandoned lots to the edge of fields, meadows, and ...

In addition to monarchs, other colorful species of insects can be found feeding on milkweed plants. Most don't do much damage to the plants.

When I bought my first milkweed plant I didn’t notice the teeny caterpillar, surreptitiously clinging to the bottom of one of the milkweed leaves.

1. Try handpicking. One of the fastest ways to get rid of milkweed aphids is to prune away heavily-infested leaves and then crush any aphids left on the plant with your fingers.

In the case of both aphids and Japanese beetles, spraying with a broad-spectrum insecticide can do more harm than good. These ...

Their caterpillars exclusively eat the leaves of a native wildflower called milkweed and the amount of it growing in North America has plummeted. In the state of Illinois alone, milkweed numbers ...

A Cottage Grove man raises — and tracks — monarch butterflies from eggs on milkweed leaves to flights to Mexico Wojciech Poreba collects monarch eggs from milkweed plants along parks and ...

Bright orange milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) usually emerge toward the end of summer and feed in clusters on the stems and leaves of common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and other milk ...