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Tegrodera laticincta
About 1 inch long. Hard shell. Bright red, yellow, black beatle like bug.
These were around about 4 days eating one certain weed along an irrigation ditch. There were thousands of them! After they finished off the 300 yards of weeds they moved on to some vines in some trees. then they left!
Thanks for the ID guys! They ate the weeds but fortunately did not move into the wheat! Quite impressive to run into the thousands and colorful! Says they are toxic, no wonder the birds were not eatting them! And yes, their heads do like like ant heads!
Great pics!!! what colors!!! So many, they are sure doing a number on those weeds.
Spotted on Mar 27, 2013
Submitted on Apr 27, 2013
