# What things are misidentified as large milkweed bug?

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**Created:** [May 20, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571 "2020-05-20T02:09:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571/16 "2020-05-22T21:50:27Z")

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I have also seen a few [Erythrostemon gilliesii](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1065391) (“Yellow bird-of-paradise shrub”) misidentified as [Strelitzia](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48316) (“bird-of-paradise flower”).

Beside their common name, these plants have visually nothing in common. So, the common name confusion is the only explanation for this misidentification.

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