In a confirmatory experiment, the insects were reared from the egg on milkweed seed and a water-suspension of Chinese black, and their excreta were collected on the filter paper shown in Fig.

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Staff at Milberger's Certified Butterfly Garden and area gardeners report that the migrating monarchs have already laid eggs that have hatched. The caterpillars are eating available milkweed.

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They are small, taste terrible to predators and make a screeching noise when threatened. And the milkweed beetle is today's Bug of the Week, the last Bug of the Week of the year.

Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, meaning it’s the only plant on which monarchs will lay eggs and eat. Milkweed also provides a food source for many other pollinators.