Early instar milkweed tussock moths eat milkweed leaves

Early instar milkweed tussock moths (Euchaetes egle) eat milkweed leaves (Asclepias syriaca). The pattern of damage they cause is called skeletonization, since the caterpillars leave nothing except a meshwork of leaf veins.

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Keywords: caterpillar, eat, euchaetes, foraging, herbivore, leaf, skeletonize