Tropical Milkweed and Milkweed Bug

4/17/2009 Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach

Seeds   12/12/2007  Fairchild Botanical Garden, Miami

12/12/2007  Fairchild Botanical Garden, Miami

Flower:

Tropical Milkweed / Mexican Butterfly Weed / Silkweed  
= Asclepias curassavica

Family: Asclepiadaceae

Native to American Tropics

Bug:

Large Milkweed Bug = Oncopeltus fasciatus

Family: Lygaeidae    9 ~ 18mm

6/9/2010 Flamingo Gardens, Davie