What To Do if a Child or Pet Eats a Poisonous Plant We invite plants from all over the world into our homes and gardens. But ...

Though it’s a wonderful beacon for some of our favorite insects—including monarch butterflies and tussock moths—milkweed is a poisonous plant for dogs. Some species contain cardiotoxins that ...

Cornell entomologist John Losey used a low toxic strain of pollen. He presented new research in Chicago showing that adult monarchs avoided laying eggs on milkweed leaves near corn plants and ...

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 ...

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 ...