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 ...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Milkweed leaves are the only food for Monarch butterfly caterpillars. One of the reasons why the Monarch population has declined by 59% this year is the loss of milkweed.

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 ...