Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps illuminate the ecological, evolutionary and economic impact of insect-plant interactions from a ...

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 ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Oliver Hernandez’s ...

In spring, summer and fall, outdoor colors surround us — from the butterflies, to the birds, to the flower blossoms and changing hues of leaves. But, when November comes around, all seems brown and ...

A milkweed beetle munches on a common milkweed leaf on June 24 in Orlan Love’s garden. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words ...

For the most part, gone are the days of gardeners reaching for the most powerful insecticide or herbicide every time they notice an unwanted bug or weed in their landscape. We have an increasing ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...