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The ant milks the caterpillar because it needs food for the ant colony. The ant also does this to help the caterpillar.

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ants milk the caterpillar to help it and to get food for the colony

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Monarch Butterfly caterpillars eat milkweed in order to become toxic, as an evolutionary defense.

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What plant does both the grasshopper and the caterpillar eat?

milkweed


Is the relationship between monarch butterfiles and milkweed mutualistic or commensalistic?

The relationship between monarch caterpillars and milkweed is mutualistic. The monarch caterpillar eats the milkweed.


What food chain begins with a milkweed?

The food chain would go, milkweed, monarch caterpillar, wasp.


Does the milkweed plant and the monarch caterpillar depend on each other?

Monarch butterflies will only lay their eggs on milkweed because it is their hostplant. A hostplant is the plant that the caterpillar will eat when it hatches from its egg. So, the monarch caterpillar will only eat milkweed, and the monarch butterfly will only lay its eggs on milkweed. The monarch depends in the milkweed, the milkweed does not depend on the monarch butterflies.


What brown caterpillar ate your milkweed?

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What fuzzy caterpillar lives on milkweed?

Monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed leaves. That is why it is so important that people plant milkweed so that the monarchs can travel from Mexico to other parts of the United States. It takes 4 generations of caterpillar to butterfly to reach the northern parts of the US and Canada.


What food web is the milkweed part of?

Milkweed is eaten by several species of insects, most notably the monarch butterfly larvae, red milkweed beetle, and milkweed tussock caterpillar or tiger moth. In turn, monarchs are eaten by birds, and tiger moths by bats.


What kind of caterpillar is hairy fuzzy white with 2 yellow eyes on one end?

milkweed


How many animal eat milkweed and what animals are they?

I know only one: the monarch butterfly caterpillar.


What do you give your caterpillar to eat?

Arsenic. Caterpillars love it. it also depends on what type it is if its a monarch you give it milkweed


Why are there holes in your milkweed leaves?

Milkweed is famous for being a virtual cafeteria for a large number of insects to feast upon. Perhaps the most beautiful and well-known is the monarch caterpillar, which becomes the monarch butterfly. The monarch caterpillar chews along the edges of leaves. Aphids are also found on milkweed, and tend to feed in large groups on the leaves and stems. The blue milkweed beetle feeds on milkweed and can be responsible for holes in leaves. The four-eyed milkweed beetle is another beetle that eats milkweed and can cause holes. This beetle is red with black spots. Finally, herbicides can cause damage to leaves of milkweed. To take a positive view, holes can be a positive sign that the milkweed is supporting a wide range of insects and butterflies who are dependant on this food source.


What makes butterflies that eat milkweed dangerous to there preditors?

The monarch caterpillar is at a high risk when they eat Milkweed. Milkweed got its name because its full of a sticky milk colored liquid. Many caterpillars get stuck in it and die. The caterpillars that eat milkweed are immune to a special toxin in the milkweed but still are at risk of dying in the sticky liquid. Butterflies do not eat milkweed. They drink nectar from flowers or juice from fruits.