Blue Milkweed Beetle Bite. The red milkweed beetle tetraopes tetrophthalmus is a beetle in the family cerambycidae the binomial genus and species names are both derived from the ancient greek for four eyes as in many longhorn beetles the antennae are situated very near the eye in the red milkweed beetle this adaptation has been carried to an extreme. Cobalt milkweed beetles chrysochus cobaltinus can be found on milkweeds especially asclepias species throughout the western united states and british columbia.
Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control. The milkweed beetle is a beautiful dark cobalt blue in colour. Larvae eat the soft tissues of leaves in the.
The antennal base actually bisects the eye.
Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control. Cobaltinus has an iridescent cobalt blue exoskeleton. Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control. With an iridescent cobalt blue exoskeleton and clubbed antennae this beetle in my opinion is rather pretty.