Mexican Milkweed Care. It s a heat lover so can fill in spots where in winter and spring you plant cool weather annuals. These orange and black insects have piercing sucking mouthparts and feed on the milkweed seeds and other plant tissues.
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These orange and black insects have piercing sucking mouthparts and feed on the milkweed seeds and other plant tissues. This tropical herbaceous perennial evergreen in milder areas is hardy to zone 8 but can be grown as an annual in colder areas. Plant mexican milkweed and the monarchs will arrive quickly and happily.
Mexican milkweed also attracts another beautiful bonus for the avid naturalist cool herbivorous lygaeid milkweed bugs.
Mexican milkweed also attracts another beautiful bonus for the avid naturalist cool herbivorous lygaeid milkweed bugs. Mexican milkweed also called bloodflower swallow wort silkweed tropical milkweed indian root butterfly weed red cottonweed and scarlet milkweed is botanically known asclepias curassavica. It does re seed and may show up in other parts of the garden next year. Plant mexican milkweed and the monarchs will arrive quickly and happily.
