Most people plant milkweed to attract monarch butterflies. However, it can attract nuisance bugs as well. If you have this plant in your yard, keep an eye out for the boxelder bug-like group of ...

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

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 ...