Subject: Swamp Milkweed Beetle, Labidomera clivicollis

Location: Upshur County, West Virginia

Stock Number: 06-37374

Comments: As the common name implies, this beetle's food plant is Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata. The beetle has a predictable wintertime home too, tucked within the flannel leaves of Common Mullein, Verbascum thapsus.