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Saturday, December 1, 2018
December 1, 2018
Location:
Okeechobee, Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
We are Giant Milkweed Bug nymphs
Climbing Milkweed is our host plant.
Like Monarchs, we become toxic from eating it,
If predators taste us they go, "Eww, I just can't!"
Sources:
Sephina gundlachii Guérin-Méneville,1857
Photo and text © 2018 Dee Fairbanks Simpson
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