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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

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 ...

Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. 2002. "The conservation of quantitative genetic variation in small populations: Experiments with Oncopeltus fasciatus (the large milkweed bug)." Ph.D, Princeton University.