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 ...

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 ...

Milkweed, Asclepias species, attracts butterflies to your garden. It also attracts other insects that you may not want. My milkweed plants, Asclepias fascicularis, were covered with aphids this summer ...

Also known as oleander aphids, milkweed aphids are not native to North America; they originated in the Mediterranean region. In their native land, these aphids primarily fed on oleander plants, but in ...

Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. 2004. "Effect of captivity on genetic variance for five traits in the large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)." Heredity, 93, (1) 51–61.

Day to Day is interviewing an expert on army ants, which reminded me that I'm still trying to get rid of the ants that are invading my kitchen. And what are those bright red and black bugs that are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — Warm weather is setting in ...