Adult Red Milkweed Beetles eat milkweed leaves, buds, and flowers. Like some other milkweed leaf feeders, they sever leaf veins “upstream” of their feeding site in order to minimize their exposure to the milkweed’s sticky latex.
06 July 2016
Red Milkweed Beetles
The milkweed plants are starting to bloom in the neighborhood, and they are swarming with different insects. While some insects, such as bees are after the flower's nectar, other insects like the Red Milkweed Beetles (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus) are able to eat the toxic milkweed plant.
Adult Red Milkweed Beetles eat milkweed leaves, buds, and flowers. Like some other milkweed leaf feeders, they sever leaf veins “upstream” of their feeding site in order to minimize their exposure to the milkweed’s sticky latex.
Adult Red Milkweed Beetles eat milkweed leaves, buds, and flowers. Like some other milkweed leaf feeders, they sever leaf veins “upstream” of their feeding site in order to minimize their exposure to the milkweed’s sticky latex.
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