Different Types Of Milkweed Bugs. Milkweeds are important for butterflies with the highest profile species benefiting from the plants being the increasingly endangered monarch butterflies. Oncopeltus fasciatus known as the large milkweed bug is a medium sized hemipteran true bug of the family lygaeidae.
It inhabits disturbed areas roadsides and open pastures. In the family cerambycidae each prefer a different species of milkweed. Of the 13 that occur in the us only three species occur in the east and the most common species in wisconsin is the red milkweed beetle t.
It is distributed throughout north america it ranges from central america through mexico and the caribbean to southern areas in canada.
Costa rica represents this insect s southern limit. It inhabits disturbed areas roadsides and open pastures. Costa rica represents this insect s southern limit. It shares the orange and black color scheme of the large milkweed bug but its marking is different.