1. Hildegard Kuse Loretta Kuse
The Milkweed Patch A Place for Resting, Seeking Refuge and Making a Home
Hildegard Kuse
Loretta Kuse

2. Resting in the Milkweed Patch
In most milkweed patches other plants such as grasses and goldenrod grow there too.
These plants attract seed and leaf-eating animals that do not feed on the milkweed plant. These animals may use the sturdy milkweed plant to rest on or find shelter.
These creatures might become prey to the predators lurking in the milkweed patch.

3. A Nursery for Young Spiderlings
Nursery Web Spiders place their egg sac between folded leaves fastened together with a network of silk threads.
This makes a safe hiding place for their young.

4. Nursery Web Spider Pisaura mirabilis

5. Nursery Web Spider Guarding its Nest

6. Nursery Web Spider’s Egg Sac

7. Firefly on Milkweed Leaf (Family Lampyidae) Larvae feed on small animals in debris. Adults may feed on nectar.

8. Firefly on Milkweed Leaf (Family Lampyidae)

9. Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly on Milkweed Leaf

10. Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)

11. Red Green Leafhoppers Mating on Milkweed Leaf

12. Leafhopper on Milkweed Leaf
The leafhopper is not known to feed on milkweed plants but may come there occasionally.

13. Leafhopper on Milkweed Leaf
This Leafhopper is resting on a milkweed leaf.

14. Grasshopper resting on milkweed

15. Katydid resting on milkweed

16. The Song Sparrow is sitting on milkweed while eating grass seeds.

17. White moth sitting on milkweed leaf.

18. A Yellow Dragonfly is Resting on a Milkweed Leaf

19. Young Rabbit Seeking Refuge Among Milkweed Plants