For anyone who has observed milkweed plants this year, perhaps searching for the monarch butterfly caterpillars that rely on them for food, there’s a good chance they may come across these hairy gaily colored caterpillars.They are the larva of the milkweed tussock moth. Unlike the monarch, which is beautiful as both caterpillar and adult, the adult moth is as p...

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