Red Milkweed Bug. Research shows that the milkweed bug also feeds on other plants. Salutations bugfans red milkweed beetle.
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They re generally considered a beneficial insect because their feeding activity can end the life cycle of milkweed plants. The antennal base actually bisects the eye. Research shows that the milkweed bug also feeds on other plants.
In the fall as the seed pods burst open it s a horticulture culinary war between the milkweed growers and the milkweed bugs.
Both want the seeds. Milkweed bug eggs when they lay eggs they re very easy to identify are they re brightly colored with orange coloration and are stuck to the plant. Red milkweed beetles tetraopes tetrophthalmus are one of the buglady s favorite beetles sharp eyed bugfans may have noticed that approximately every third insect is a buglady favorite she loves rmbs because they are in the very spiffy long horned beetle family cerambycidae of the elegant antennae because even when occupied with matters of the. Unless you re a milkweed plant farmer milkweed bugs in the garden don t require any type of control.
