Question

Caterpillars eat the milkweed plant. The milkweed plant is a weed that takes over other plants. Based on these two things, are milkweed plants helpful or harmful to the environment?

Helpful
Harmful
Both helpful and harmful
Neither helpful nor harmful Science

Answer 1

Answer:

Both helpful and harmful

Answer 2

Answer:

Both helpful and harmful

Explanation:

The milkweed plant is helpful, because it is the host pant for monarch butterflies and helps provide nectar and pollen for many other pollinators.

It is harmful for many reasons, including it's toxic, poisonous, it produces a type of steroid that is able to stop the heart, and they cause many other sicknesses.