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Spotted Cucumber Beetle

Diabrotica undecimpunctata

Photo by ChrisBanul
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Field Notes

Description:

a little guy about a centimeter long.

Habitat:

fields, edges of forests

Notes:

a major agricultural pest insect. In the adult form it eats and damages leaves of many crops, including cucumbers, soybeans, cotton, beans and many others. I found this guy about a hundred yards from a field of corn

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Spotted cucumber beetle

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PublishedSeptember 19, 2011

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