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Found feeding on horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)
Ladybug sized insect with black and white stripes.
They play dead when you bother them-this is a natural behavior
Round striped beetle that landed on my husband's hand. Backyard, upstate NY
This beetle was on an eggplant plant in my garden.
Looks like a striped sunflower seed with legs!
Looking for the common and scientific name of this beetle.
Small eggs on the underside of horse nettle leaves - colors range from pale ...
About an inch long. Brown/red head and black and cream striped body.
This beetle was walking the rope. Its a relative of the potato beetle but not a ...
The plant it is on is either a nettle or a nightshade. I have no idea where to ...
The shell is sleek and hard. It's colored in alternating white, tan, and black ...
Active and colorful beetle found on my front stoop in the middle of a hot day. ...
The false potato beetle (sometimes horsenettle beetle),
When I first saw these two bugs I thought they were slugs. But when I cropped ...
Small plant, 1 foot tall, growing by itself on the edge of the street and the ...
They were in my garden, which is pretty wild, but they were quickly eating a ...
Adult beetles emerge from the soil in the late spring or early summer and begin ...