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.

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 ...

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 ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that scientists know of. (And many more that have not even been discovered.) How ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, are some of the most recognizable butterflies in North America. But they're in trouble. Monarch caterpillars can only eat the ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: Monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower. view more . Credit: Photo by Mark and Michelle Rogovin. Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, are some of the most ...