Milkweed Beetle Pondering and Climbing
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Washington, Connecticut. There’s quite a bit of milkweed out in the meadow at Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. Monarch butterflies love to eat this weed and I would think that smart photographers who want to photograph monarchs would wait by a patch of this weed for one to stop by for a snack. While photographing another weed (Queen Anne’s Lace) I noticed a milkweed beetle slowly climbing around on a nearby plant and so, moved my tripod over for a session with this colorful creature.
Note: I didn’t know what this guy was but flickr helped.
