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Colorado potato beetle

Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Photo by Meik Meißner
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Suprisingly I found this one in a forest on an Asarabacca (Asarum europaeum) and not on a potato field, though it usually feeds on potato plants.

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Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say 1824)

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PublishedMay 29, 2011

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