Mexican Milkweed Seeds. It does re seed and may show up in other parts of the garden next year. These orange and black insects have piercing sucking mouthparts and feed on the milkweed seeds and other plant tissues.
Mexican milkweed also attracts another beautiful bonus for the avid naturalist cool herbivorous lygaeid milkweed bugs. These include dividing the plant rooting cuttings or sowing seeds. It is native to the american tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species other common names include bloodflower or blood flower cotton bush hierba de la cucaracha mexican butterfly weed redhead scarlet milkweed and wild ipecacuanha.
It does re seed and may show up in other parts of the garden next year.
I saved some from one of my plants and would like to plant them. Commonly called mexican butterfly weed blood flower or tropical milkweed these showy plants have blooms in the colors or red orange and yellow. Stephanietx fort worth tx zone 8a sep 13 2013. This test began with thirty mexican whorled milkweed seeds.
