Red milkweed beetles, or eastern milkweed longhorns, (Tetraopes tetraopthalmus) preparing to mate on the leaf of a common milkweed plant (Ascelpias sy

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Red milkweed beetles, or eastern milkweed longhorns, (Tetraopes tetraopthalmus) preparing to mate on the leaf of a common milkweed plant (Ascelpias syriaca). These beetles lay their eggs on milkweed, and larvae become poisonous by feeding on the plants.

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Keywords: ascelpias, beetle, colorful, common, eastern, insect, longhorn, mating, milkweed, orange, red, reproduction, sex, syriaca, tetraopes, tetraopthalmus