Common milkweed provides nectar for butterflies, and is the only food source for monarch caterpillars, but is it right for ...

Milkweed plants are the hosts for the larvae of the monarch butterfly as well as several species of beetles, true bugs and the milkweed tussock moth. Skip to Article Set weather ...

Milkweed aphids taste foul to many predatory insects because of the compounds they ingest from the milkweed plants. However, several beneficial bugs prey on milkweed aphids, including ladybugs ...

Although the relationship between the red milkweed beetle and milkweed plants has been studied for nearly 150 years, ... “For many insects that eat it, ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea ...

Winfield, Kansas, puts common milkweed on its list of “rank” plants that harbor rats and insects, pose fire risks or blight neighborhoods. Sometimes, city codes hinge on context.

As I’ve mentioned before in this column, helping monarchs is really as simple as planting monarch-sustaining milkweed plants for the larvae, along with other native, nectar plants for the adults.

File: Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on a milkweed plant flower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 08, 2022. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

Milkweed aphids taste foul to many predatory insects because of the compounds they ingest from the milkweed plants. However, several beneficial bugs prey on milkweed aphids, including ladybugs ...