Hi Willkelly, thank you for your response! I have since moved from the desert but am still looking for different milkweeds. I was initially interested in the one that looks like leafless sprears but am open to any trade. I can offer white giant milkweed seeds (limited), white swamp milkweed (limited but all ready cold stratified), tropical milkweed etc. also have some cuttings...firespike, jj plumeria etc. let me know what you might be interested in

@Perennialfan: If the smaller red bugs look like those in the second picture down on the right-hand side of the link I posted, they are immature milkweed bugs. MBs have an incomplete metamorphosis (meaning that the young look very much like the adults). @Ken: Milkweed bugs are in the order hemiptera, all of which have sucking mouthparts. This order of insects are commonly referred to as "true bugs" and includes such insects as aphids, woolly adelgids, leafhoppers, planthoppers, cicadas, stinkbugs and tens of thousands of others. I don't know whether they're called "true bugs" so as to distinguish them from the term "bug" to describe any insect, or whether there's another reason ... but I'm sure it's a lot easier for most people to handle than "hemiptera" (which really isn't so difficult, once you get used to it). Considering their apparent promiscuity, I don't know if any bugs are really true ;-) @Echinaceamaniac: You've sure got that right! I've seen the milkweed in our park take a lot of abuse from nature ... and still it thrives!

I have tropical milkweed, swamp hibiscus (red) and cardinal flower seeds. If you are interested in any of these I am looking for swamp milkweed and any other milkweeds.

Nikki, I received the milkweed seeds yesterday. Thanks for including the instructions...they're off to the refrigerator for a month's visit. I put your seeds in the mail a few days ago so you should be receiving them any day. John