Becker and her team of volunteers carefully survey plots, identifying and counting ... serves as the monarch’s host plant. Monarch caterpillars feed off milkweed, and adults need nectar ...
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the pollinator's population and sole source of food and habitat ...
Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps ... the ecology and evolution of specialized plant-feeding in longhorned beetles, and other ...