The milkweed bug does some plant damage even though it primarily eats the seeds of milkweed. However, cultivating milkweed plants is important for our monarch butterflies? survival. Spray one of the ...

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 ...

There are hundreds of orange and black bugs of various sizes that seem to be feeding on my milkweed plants. What should I do? When I went to research this topic, I had to laugh at the simplicity of ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

The milkweed leaf beetle loves swamp milkweed, but also likes the common milkweed and other varieties. It slices off pieces of the leaves to eat, and, if the population gets out of control, can strip ...

You planted milkweed because you wanted to help monarch butterflies. But now you're seeing all sorts of bugs on your plants. And you're not sure how you feel about it or what to do. I know this ...

Four kinds of red and dark-patterned bugs in Lancaster County, as elsewhere, gather into noticeable groups during September or October. The four are large milkweed bugs and small, eastern milkweed ...

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.