Can someone please help me identify these guys!? I have found several of them living in the flowers of my milkweed while I was removing aphids off the plants.
Caterpillar Identification
Quite possibly larvae of a syrphid fly - these are voracious predators on aphids. See https://www.myfields.info/sites/default/files/PsLar.png for an example.
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