Garden Pests and Diseases: Good/Bad/Ugly?: Aphids, Assasins and Milkweed Beetles, 1 by joepyeweed

joepyeweed wrote:
I've never been bitten by a milkweed beetle - though I don't touch them either.

I've had battled milkweed mites though - the nasty things will take over and out eat the caterpillars. I just wipe them off with a paper towel. Last year I thought I would stop wiping and see what they would do if I left the mites uncontrolled.

Well, my conclusion became that I have to wipe them off or there will be nothing left ...