I have honeyvine milkweed with pods like that right now, and also currently home to orange and black bugs (they started out very tiny, but are growing).

Mine is a weed, but a favorite monarch caterpillar food source (I airlift all found monarch caterpillars to this) and the white flowers smelled really great so I'm saving a pod or two to grow in more controlled situations next year.

I don't know much about milkweed but I'm guessing there is more than one kind. Extension.missouri.edu says: Although other milkweeds contain a milky latex sap, honeyvine milkweed does not. So maybe break off a few pieces and test it for that? I'm pretty sure unless you spray it, it'll be back. If so, watch for the blooms - if they are white and smell great, I'll bet you have honeyvine.

Thank you for your information. Can milkweed be a vine? When I was a kid we had milkweed but the leaves had milk in them and if I remember right they were prickly. These leaves as you can tell don't have any milk.
Should I pick a pod now or wait till they dry up? Oh, before I forget...the vines are getting wilty. ???

I'm pretty sure they call that Bind Weed, destroy those pods before they release their seeds and dig up the p1ant.
I battle this weed spring,summer and fall. I've seen them grow over and suffocate bushes in landscaping. They are very aggresive!

As stated above, extension.missouri.edu says: Although other milkweeds contain a milky latex sap, honeyvine milkweed does not. So maybe break off a few pieces and test it for that? I'm pretty sure unless you spray it, it'll be back. If so, watch for the blooms - if they are small and white in bunches and smell great, I'll bet you have honeyvine. Google for images of honeyvine, maybe it'll jog somebody's memory of what was on the fence earlier this year.

Not sure why they are getting wilty unless they're dry or been poisoned or are being eaten by something or it's fall or something. Mine are still okay. I haven't paid attention to the pods before, so not sure how long into the season they remain intact before letting the seed go, but I would think the seed would be best mature in a more dry pod than a green one.

Honeyvine is often confused with bindweed based on the appearance of the vine and leaves, but I don't think it makes pods like that - bindweed is in the morning glory family and the flowers of bindweed are morning-gloryesque; from what I'm reading they make pods like morning glory with 4 seeds or so, not the milkweed pods this one is producing.

But I totally understand the confusion, I have them both and thought all I had was bindweed until this one caught my attention with the scent.