Milkweed Bug. The milkweed bug and milkweed assassin bug both look almost the same so it s often easy to get them confused and mistaken a milkweed bug bite that actually came from a milkweed assassin bug. Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control.
We have quite a few of these bugs. Immature milkweed bugs typically are found in clusters so their presence will catch your eye. It varies in length from 10 to 18 millimeters.
Lygaeus kalmii angustomarginatus is found in north temperate regions of north america and is not a migratory insect.
This means i am going to prefer that they do not live in my garden. Since the milkweed bugs are seed and sap suckers and since milkweed is an important host plant in my garden i consider them a bad bug. Immature milkweed bugs typically are found in clusters so their presence will catch your eye. The large milkweed bug oncopeltus fasciatus is colored orange red and black it has a long proboscis and is a piercing sucking insect.