{"id":198,"date":"2020-08-20T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/?p=198"},"modified":"2020-08-20T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:39:36","slug":"swamp-milkweed-leaf-beetle-labidomera-clivicollis-feeding-on-tropical-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/2020\/08\/swamp-milkweed-leaf-beetle-labidomera-clivicollis-feeding-on-tropical-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica\/","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, Labidomera clivicollis Feeding on Tropical Milkweed, Asclepias curassavica."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/files\/2020\/08\/beetleonmilkweed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" width=\"300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/files\/2020\/08\/beetleonmilkweed.jpg 708w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/files\/2020\/08\/beetleonmilkweed-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Swamp milkweed leaf beetle feeding on tropical milkweed.  <br>Photo by: James Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, <em>Labidomera clivicollis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an adult, <em>Labidomera clivicollis<\/em> is 12 to 13 mm in length.\u00a0 It has a black head and black pronotum.\u00a0 The elytra either have orange or yellow coloration, with dark blue to black splotches. With each side of the elytra exhibiting almost perfect symmetry.\u00a0 This species is oval and robust.\u00a0 The thorax is three times as wide as long and the elytral punctures are fine and arranged in irregular rows.\u00a0 Legs are a metallic blue color and exhibit 4-4-4 tarsi, a typical chrysomelid characteristic.\u00a0 The last tarsi have a tan colored plate resembling a broad heart shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tropical milkweed, <em>Asclepias curassavica<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Asclepias curassavica<\/em>, commonly called bloodflower, is a tender evergreen perennial native to South America. It has a much longer flowering period than the native perennial milkweed species. It typically grows as a subshrub to 2-3\u2019 tall on upright stems clad with pointed, opposite, lanceolate leaves (to 6\u201d long). Leaves are medium green sometimes with white midribs. Showy flowers with five sepals and five lobes appear in rounded axillary clusters (cymes) in late spring to early summer. Flowers are red-orange with yellow hoods (for the species; cultivars can be all yellow, such as \u2018Hello Yellow\u2019, etc). Flowering continues throughout the summer to early autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources: Bodnariuk, B. and B. Scholtens 2014. &#8220;Labidomera clivicollis&#8221; (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed August 20, 2020 at <a href=\"https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Labidomera_clivicollis\/\">https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Labidomera_clivicollis\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bodie Pennisi, Professor, CAES-Horticulture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle, Labidomera clivicollis As an adult, Labidomera clivicollis is 12 to 13 mm in length.\u00a0 It has a black head and black pronotum.\u00a0 The elytra either have orange or yellow coloration, with dark blue to black splotches. With each side of the elytra exhibiting almost perfect symmetry.\u00a0 This species is oval and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}