While milkweed is generally hardy, it can attract pests such as aphids. Instead of resorting to chemical pesticides, which ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome and transcriptome of the milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) to investigate its biology and how it thrives on what is for other animals a toxic diet, they ...

Buffelgrass displaces native plants and is very difficult to control. Under natural conditions the prostrate milkweed is thought to be able to persist at low densities. It produces so much nectar that ...

Milkweed is the only plant monarch caterpillars ... “Monarchs are only one species of pollinators and pollinators are mostly insects. There are other animals we rely on pollinators for plant ...