It's a small world.
Imagine living your entire life on a single milkweed plant oblivious to other milkweed plants. Or better still, imagine your family living generation after generation on a single plant. (Some insects go through several broods in a single year.) I'm not sure if this is true; they may be more mobile than the little red-and-black bugs appear to be at first glance, but they seem to stay put—trundle about, live their entire lives, sip their sap, meet each other, exchange greetings, mate, have babies—all on the same milkweed seed pod.
A small world indeed.
Once again I visited the colony of milkweed in front of the Visitor Center at Ijams and found, yet another, generation of milkweed bugs. This photo shows young ones and eggs. They are tiny.
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4 comments:
Some photograph. DOF really enhances the wee things. Good job they don't wander far. I'd have just got all set up and found nothing to photograph.
Hello Adrian.
Good to hear from you. Yep, the wee things do not move around very much. Easy to photograph.
Great photo! The colors and the DOF are perfect.
Nice image. I've wondered what these bugs were as I was photographing the monarch last week. Not a complicated name!
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