Caterpillars are susceptible to attack from many predators. This monarch butterfly caterpillar is being attacked by a brown soldier bug (Cermatulus nasalis). The bug does not feed on sap, like many other bugs do, but sucks the juices out of caterpillars.
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Photograph by Andrew Crowe
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