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Diabrotica undecimpunctata
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.
On a dandelion.
This one still has one of its wings extended and not completely folded under the elytra.
Spotted on Mar 17, 2013
Submitted on Mar 17, 2013
2 Comments
thanks - first i have seen in the garden. :)
Nice find!