Tag: plant

Milkweed seeds (Asclepias syriaca) bursting from the follicle. 

All my life some family member has continued the tradition – started by my grandmother – of growing common milkweed in the garden to attract monarch butterflies and to feed their caterpillars. This milkweed stand is at my sister’s home in the Deep Creek community in Chesapeake, Virginia.  

Milkweed seeds (Asclepias syriaca) bursting from the follicle. 

All my life some family member has continued the tradition – started by my grandmother – of growing common milkweed in the garden to attract monarch butterflies and to feed their caterpillars. This milkweed stand is at my sister’s home in the Deep Creek community in Chesapeake, Virginia.  

Milkwood bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on common milkweed seed pods (Asclepias syriaca), in Chesapeake, Virginia. 

One of my earliest jobs with the Virginia Tech Entomology Department was tending to the milkweed bug colonies used for genetics research in the labs of Drs. Mary Ross and Donald Cochran. They were much more pleasant to handle than the thousands of jars of live-specimen cockroach colonies we kept in the lab. 

Milkwood bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on common milkweed seed pods (Asclepias syriaca), in Chesapeake, Virginia. 

One of my earliest jobs with the Virginia Tech Entomology Department was tending to the milkweed bug colonies used for genetics research in the labs of Drs. Mary Ross and Donald Cochran. They were much more pleasant to handle than the thousands of jars of live-specimen cockroach colonies we kept in the lab.