This distinctly colored beetle is common in gardens where milkweed has been allowed to grow. They’re almost twice the size of ...

you’re also nurturing the milkweed tussock moth and milkweed beetle, whose larvae feed on its leaves like monarchs, and pollinators including other butterflies, birds, and bees who feed on the ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...