Small milkweed bugs are black, red, and flat as you can see in the picture. But that doesn’t stop them from being a pretty cool bug. This is the small milkweed bug we saw when we were searching for pollinators and I can’t wait to see one again. But here’s some things about the small milkweed bug. The small milkweed bug likes being by milkweed plants because of course its called a small milkweed bug – so why don’t you think it should be by a milkweed plant?
I learned from What’s That Bug?, that the small milkweed bug is a scavenger and predator for monarch caterpillars and pupae, honey bees, and dogbane beetles. They do this more in the spring when they can’t find milkweed seeds.
Dez's Wildlife Exhibit 