WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― This insidious vine can wind around patio furniture, cover other plants or even an entire bush within days or appear out of the blue sticking straight up in your lawn. If it has ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― This insidious vine can wind around patio furniture, cover other plants or even an entire bush within days or appear out of the blue sticking straight up in your lawn. If it has ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Conservation organizations across the United States plant milkweed to combat the loss of monarch butterflies, whose populations have declined around 90 percent in the last two ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. Many gardeners will tell you ...

LANSING, MI – Milkweed is not a weed. Milkweed is a native plant and a keystone species critical for the survival of the beloved monarch butterfly, another keystone species crucial for its pollinator ...

Butterfly fans, take a breath. I know it’s officially spring and we’re all pounding on nursery doors, anxious to plant some California native milkweed to help the endangered Western monarch butterfly ...

A member of the milkweed family is August’s Weed of the Month. Black swallow-wort (Cynanchum louiseae), also called dog-strangling vine, is a perennial, herbaceous vine that can form large patches and ...

HOLDINGFORD — An invasive vine not seen in the United States in six decades was discovered along the Lake Wobegon Trail in Holdingford, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

This behavior by the fluttering insects was so unusual that scientists had to invent a new word to describe it. By Annie Roth Butterflies seem gentle as they flutter from plant to plant. But some may ...

is a wonderful biennial wildflower in the phlox family. The first season it starts out with a low-growing rosette of foliage, and the second season it soars upward with tall spikes of reddish-orange ...