Red milkweed beetle.
Red milkweed beetle.

Red Milkweed Beetle

The red milkweed beetle is a longhorn beetle that actually lives on and eats milkweed.

Red milkweed beetle.

Milkweed longhorn beetle also known as red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus), in Scarborough, Ontario. It was actually sitting on milkweed.

The bright coloration is a warning to would be predators, that just like the Monarch butterfly, the Milkweed longhorn beetle is poisonous.

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Last updated: September 1, 2015

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