Understanding the changes in genetic variance which may occur as populations move from nature into captivity has been considered important when populations in captivity are used as models of wild ones ...

Q: We have a large number of these black and orange bugs on our milkweed plants. Do they hurt the swallowtail butterflies? Will they kill our milkweed? A: Oncopeltus fasciatus, or large milkweed bug, ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Q: My milkweed has orange bugs on its seed pods. Are they harmful? No, they’re not going to damage the plant enough to warrant intervention. These are native insects, and they are part of the ...

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand ...

THE increasing interest in biological means of controlling insects intensifies the need for investigations of the response of insects to disease organisms and foreign proteins. The hæmolymph, the ...

Of all the animal on the planet, insects are among the most feared and reviled. Some sting (wasps and bees) and some bite (mosquitoes, horse flies and blackflies). Others are agricultural pests or ...

As with many discoveries I was looking for something else, entirely. A few years ago, I planted six milkweed plants in my garden. Time and a wet winter have been good to them and they have multiplied.

Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. 2004. "Effect of captivity on genetic variance for five traits in the large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)." Heredity, 93, (1) 51–61.