Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, black swallowtail caterpillars eat plants in the parsley family, and so on. ... Other Types of Insect Eggs. Other insects lay eggs in the garden, too.

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

Female milkweed tussock moths begin to deposit their eggs on milkweed plants in June. You probably won’t see them unless you are looking because they like to locate them on the underside of the ...

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 ...

“This tells us what milkweed gardens look like and how monarch eggs are showing up in real life in actual urban places,” Hasle said. Citizen scientist Lorraine Kells finds a 3-day-old ...

As I crisscross the county this summer to share environmental experiences with students, I can’t help but notice all of the ...

Researchers and community scientists monitored urban milkweed plants for butterfly eggs to learn what makes these city gardens more hospitable to monarchs. They found that even tiny city gardens ...

While there are several native species of milkweed, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) was a key species for where and how many eggs the insects laid. Common milkweed also happened to be very ...

More than 40 insects and other invertebrates, including slugs, snails and spider mites, dine on milkweed foliage, as do rabbits and ground squirrels. The flowers’ nectar supports butterflies ...

Wojciech Poreba inspects milkweed at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove while looking for monarch butterfly eggs Wednesday afternoon Aug. 7, 2024. (Devanie Andre / Pioneer Press) Raising and releasing ...