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 ...

This plant is also common in North America and toxic to your dogs. If he eats any part of the milkweed, he might get these symptoms: usual vomiting, diarrhea, hard-to-breath, fast and weak pulse, ...

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 ...

One of the main threats to monarchs is the eradication of milkweed plants along their migratory route. Milkweed is the primary food source for the insect—and the only plant where the females lay their ...

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 ...

You can often smell its lovely fragrance before you see it. Common milkweed is a native perennial plant in the milkweed family. It commonly grows in sunny areas and ditches and is a primary part of ...