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Both the milkweed tussock and the monarch caterpillars eat the cardiac glycoside-laden milky sap of milkweed and have evolved mechanisms to retain those toxins in their bodies after metamorphosing ...
Cynanchum laeve is a food plant of caterpillars of monarch butterflies. [4] [14] Larvae of Euchaetes egle, the milkweed tussock moth, both in the Eastern and Western United States consume C. laeve. The larvae of these moths eat Cynanchum laeve and other plants when developing. [5]
Fifth-instar monarch larva eating milkweed leaves (Some at 20 × speed). A second-instar larva grazing on leaf and cutting through a latex vein. The third-instar larva has more distinct bands and the two pairs of tentacles become longer. Legs on the thorax differentiate into a smaller pair near the head and larger pairs further back.
Euchaetes egle, the milkweed tiger moth or milkweed tussock moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is a common mid- through late summer feeder on milkweeds and dogbane .
Monarch females only lay eggs on milkweed and their caterpillars only eat milkweed. The hope is that the legislation will make it easier to plant more milkweed across Ohio.
Butterflies need specific plants, called host plants, where they can lay their eggs and caterpillars hatch. Not all caterpillars will become butterflies, of course, because some are eaten by birds ...
The Danaidae are also referred to as "milkweed butterfly," so named because the caterpillars feed on various milkweed plants. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danainae . Subcategories
Methona themisto, from the tribe Ithomiini. Danainae is a subfamily of the family Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies.It includes the Daniadae, or milkweed butterflies, who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as well as the clearwing butterflies (), and the tellervini.