Box elder and milkweed bugs are often mistaken for each other.
Do an image search on Asclepias. That is the Latin name of the plant.
Milkweed bugs have eggs, then several stages of nymphs, and then finally adults. The picture shows some nymphs.
There is common milkweed, purple milkweed, tropical milkweed, and swamp milkweed.
Yes. There is milkweed in Jamaica. The Jamaican Monarch lives on milkweed.
Milkweed is not a decomposer.
Eggs on milkweed are eggs of monarch butterflies or milkweed beetles.
Milkweed is a vascular plant.
There are different types of milkweed. Tropical milkweed grows in the south. Common milkweed grows in on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. There is western milkweed on the Pacific coast.
Milkweed bugs have oblong bodies that are black and orange-red in color. As its name implies, it feeds on milkweed plants. The adult milkweed bug has the ability to fly.
Milkweed is a vascular plant.
Some milkweed get 4 feet tall. Tropical milkweed is much shorter, perhaps 18 inches tall.
The title of the children's book about a mouse named Milkweed who makes a home in a log is "Milkweed."
The plant milkweed is not mentioned in the book "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli. The novel focuses on a young boy, Misha, living in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and does not contain references to the plant milkweed.