Orange Milkweed Bug. This helps to control the milkweed plant which can be invasive but is also an important food source and breeding location for monarch butterflies. However metabolism comparisons now reveal that the bugs.
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There is a red band on the pronotum instead of orange margins as on the large milkweed bug. It varies in length from 10 to 18 millimeters. Milkweed bugs are small and orange or reddish orange in color.
Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control.
This is the same coloration seen in monarch butterflies which share this food source. Mexican beetles also have orange bodies and black markings. The striking red orange colour of the milkweed bug is in fact a warning sign to potential predators. Costa rica represents this insect s southern limit.
