Monarch caterpillar crawling on a milkweed plant

Caterpillar on a leaf with a seed caught on the leaf by its hair-like tuft of fibers
Photo By/Credit
Gary Peeples/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
09/15/2025
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Monarch caterpillar crawling on a milkweed plant at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Asheville Field Office pollinator garden, Buncombe County, N.C.
Facility
Asheville Ecological Services Field Office
Species
Danaus plexippus
Subject tags
Insects
Pollinators