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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Seed Bugs
  7. Oncopeltus
  8. Erythrischius
  9. Large Milkweed Bug

species 90,407 observations

Large Milkweed Bug

Oncopeltus fasciatus

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

213 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Narrowleaf Milkweed, Swamp Milkweed, Butterfly Milkweed, Hartweg's Climbing Milkweed 154
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Hairy Milkweed, Blueblossom, Catclaw Acacia, Fringed Amaranth 59

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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