Found these Painted Grasshoppers feeding on the Giant Milkweed (Calotropsis gigantea). This common shrub can grow into a small tree and produces profuse milky latex and is the food plant of the Plain tiger Butterfly as well.
The presence of this plant in the diet of these insects makes them poisonous to there predators.
Sunday, December 26, 2004
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