Hi Everyone.

I haven't posted here before but I have a question for you. A few days ago my milkweed was covered in small caterpillars. The were about a inch long, black, fuzzy with a orange strip down their backs. There were probably 50 of them in all. They ate the entire plant. Everything but the stem and pods. though I did notice yesterday one had burrowed into the pod as well.

Any idea of what I have here? I thought they were monarch's and told my husband not to bother them. But when I looked up the pic's of monarch caterpillars that is not what I have.

Thanks for any help.

Stacy