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 ...

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand ...

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: We have a large number of these black and orange bugs on our milkweed plants. Do they hurt the swallowtail butterflies? Will they kill our milkweed? A: Oncopeltus fasciatus, or large milkweed bug, ...

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 ...

Last week’s storms finally gave our plants some needed water, but we’re not home free yet. If August brings more bucket-carrying, hose-dragging, and sprinkler-moving, you have a few other options. One ...

Last year my milkweeds attracted monarch butterflies and many caterpillars. This year, the plants are covered with black and orange insects. Should I try to get rid of them? Will my plants be okay ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My house is being invaded. It happens to some extent in fall of most years, but this is the most intense we have experienced, and on the first day of ...

As with many discoveries I was looking for something else, entirely. A few years ago, I planted six milkweed plants in my garden. Time and a wet winter have been good to them and they have multiplied.

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 ...