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Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus
Copyright © 2007 Kathleen

Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus
metro Atlanta, south Fulton County, Georgia, USA
August 26, 2007
found on maypop near my common milkweed plantings

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Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus - male - female
Contributed by Kathleen on 27 August, 2007 - 8:21am

Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus
Do they eat little orange aphids? My butterfly bush is full of little orange aphid looking bugs on the seed pods as well as the large milkweed bugs.
ELM
… Eileen, 10 September, 2008 - 7:43pm

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