Early instar milkweed tussock moths eat milkweed leaves

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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