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Spotted Cucumber Beetle

Diabrotica undecimpunctata

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Field Notes

Description:

Adults yellow to green with eleven black spots on the elytra. Considered a major pest of many field crops including cucumbers and other squashes, corn, soy. Beetles also transmit crop diseases such as bacterial wilt. Adults also reported damaging to garden plants including hibiscus, roses.

Habitat:

On a guard rail near a road.

Reference Links:

Cucumber beetle, Species Diabrotica undecimpunctata - Spotted Cucumber Beetle - BugGuide.Net

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PublishedNovember 17, 2013

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