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Metallic Blue Flea Beetle

Altica pagana

Photo by windmustache
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Metallic blue flea beetle

Altica pagana
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lori.tas
No problem. We get a literal infestation of them every year at about this time. The plants are just covered with thousands of the little rutters. Although I have yet to find out where they lay their eggs.
lori.tas
Did it look like these, they were really small: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7099726
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2011

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