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 ...

Bugs are everywhere pollinating our favorite flowers, fruits and vegetables, and serving lunch for the birds. They provide an important service for the food supply for people, animals, insects and ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Monarch butterflies go to butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) for nectar from its flowers and to lay their eggs on its leaves ...

QUESTION: A month or so back, I noticed half-inch black and orange bugs all over my orange butterfly weed plants (milkweed). The bugs didn't seem to bother the plants, but they seemed to lay tons of ...

Last week’s storms finally gave our plants some needed water, but we’re not home free yet. If August brings more bucket-carrying, hose-dragging, and sprinkler-moving, you have a few other options. One ...

Today's Bug of the Week were once thought to be a problem for another insect that is facing an uncertain future. But it turns ...

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. Across the Midwest ...

Last week’s storms finally gave our plants some needed water, but we’re not home free yet. If August brings more bucket-carrying, hose-dragging, and sprinkler-moving, you have a few other options. One ...