milkweed beetle

milkweed beetle
any of several small red, black-spotted elongated beetles of the genus Tetraopes, common in eastern North America, that inhabit the milkweed.
[1835-45]

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insect
      (species Chrysochus cobaltinus), member of the insect subfamily Eumolpinae of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae (order Coleoptera). The milkweed beetle is a beautiful dark cobalt blue in colour.

      It is a close relative of, and a bit shorter than, the dogbane beetle, and it is found throughout the far western United States. The milkweed beetle feeds on dogbane plants.

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