The relationship between monarch caterpillars and milkweed is mutualistic. The monarch caterpillar eats the milkweed.
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.
The ants squeeze the aphids to extract a sweet tasting liquid and in return, that ants protect the aphids. I do not believe the foregoing statement. I wonder whether the person who wrote it has ever seen anything of the kind happening. I have seen ants eating aphids, cutting them up and carrying them away, and I have seen ants stroking aphids with their antennae, which seemed to stimulate the aphids into giving up honeydew. However, I may have misinterpreted that stroking; possibly touching the aphid with the antenna was just to see whether there was any honeydew to pick up, and the aphid might have been about to produce honeydew anyway. In any case, there certainly is a symbiotic (more precisely, mutualistic) relationship between many kinds of ants and many kinds of aphids. Generally speaking it takes the form of ants protecting aphids and removing their (unwanted) honeydew for their own purposes.
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.