Each year the National Garden Bureau chooses plants of the year. I always look forward to which plants they pick and learning ...

“It is exciting to have evidence for the importance of top-down influences from predators.” Scientists have long known that milkweed cardenolides, which in most animals disable a vital ...

which are natural predators of aphids, or spray the plants with a mixture of water and mild soap. I've found that a gentle ...

the ability to digest milkweed toxins and become poisonous to predators. Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and ...

Each year the National Garden Bureau chooses plants of the year. I always look forward to which plants they pick and learning ...

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 ...