{"id":2313,"date":"2015-09-01T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2015-09-01T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:22:00","slug":"red-milkweed-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/09\/01\/red-milkweed-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Milkweed Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The red milkweed beetle is a longhorn beetle that actually lives on and eats <a href=\"\/2015\/06\/28\/milkweed\/\" title=\"Milkweed\">milkweed<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2314\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milkweed-Longhorn-Beetle.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2314\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milkweed-Longhorn-Beetle.jpg\" alt=\"Red milkweed beetle.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2314\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milkweed-Longhorn-Beetle.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milkweed-Longhorn-Beetle-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milkweed-Longhorn-Beetle-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milkweed longhorn beetle also known as red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus), in <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/#Scarborough\" title=\"Toronto\">Scarborough<\/a>, <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/\" title=\"Ontario\">Ontario<\/a>. It was actually sitting on milkweed.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The bright coloration is a warning to would be predators, that just like the <a href=\"\/2015\/06\/27\/monarch-butterfly\/\" title=\"Monarch Butterfly\">Monarch butterfly<\/a>, the Milkweed longhorn beetle is poisonous.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\nEastern Milkweed Longhorn Beetle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/118559-Tetraopes-tetrophthalmus\" title=\"Tetraopes tetrophthalmus\" target=\"_blank\">Tetraopes tetrophthalmus<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2966\" title=\"Species Tetraopes tetrophthalmus - Red Milkweed Beetle\" target=\"_blank\">Red Milkweed Beetle<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/\" title=\"bugguide.net\" target=\"_blank\">bugguide.net<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tetraopes_tetrophthalmus\" title=\"Tetraopes tetrophthalmus\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tetraopes tetrophthalmus<\/em><\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/fieldstation\/naturalhistory\/bugoftheweek\/red-milkweed-beetle.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"UW-Milwaukee: Field Station - Red Milkweed Beetles\">Red Milkweed Beetles<\/a>.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red milkweed beetle is a longhorn beetle that actually lives on and eats milkweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,89,38,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}