Aphids on Milkweeds - Livestream

Many gardeners plant milkweed to attract and provide larval food for the iconic and endangered monarch butterfly, only to find their plants rapidly covered with large populations of oleander aphids! Documented through her photographs in an Oakland pollinator garden, May Chen has followed the fate of these aphids over the milkweed season and learned some important lessons about their natural control -- and the value of “doing nothing” -- along the way. For this presentation, Clytia Curley will narrate May's photographs and discoveries.

Speaker: Clytia Curley, UC Botanical Garden