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Asclepiadaceae

 9-Asclepias w/fly

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In this photo, a fly has gotten its leg trapped in the stigma slit (yellow arrow). Flies sometimes are not powerful to pull their legs out of the slit and die on milkweed flowers. This example is Asclepias syriaca.
Photo by K. R. Robertson from plants collected near Loda Cemetery Prairie.
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