The common milkweed is a host plant for the monarch butterfly caterpillar. Other insects feed on it as well - and they can devour the leaves and eat the seeds.
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| Small Milkweed Bug (Lygaeus kalmii) |
A Small Milkweed bug sitting on a milkweed seed pod. These bugs eat milkweed seeds.
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| Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar (Euchaetes egle) |
Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillars are eating this milkweed leaf; what's left of a devoured one is seen in the lower right corner.
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