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    Communities > Forums > Insect and Spider Identification
    Forum: Insect and Spider IdentificationReplies: 3, Views: 24
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    Zeppy
    Shenandoah Valley, VA (Zone 6b)

    June 4, 2006 12:06 AM

    Post #2349107

    This beetle looked absolutely golden when I took this picture (a bad picture; sorry): it's in the bottom left hand portion of the frame. I don't know if it's what is eating the morning glory or not. Its shape reminds me of an early instar potato beetle, but not the color.

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    Zeppy
    Shenandoah Valley, VA (Zone 6b)

    June 4, 2006 12:07 AM

    Post #2349112

    So then I take the leaves off of them to take another picture, and they turn... red. Very weird.

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    paalexan
    Las Cruces, NM

    June 4, 2006 12:24 AM

    Post #2349162

    That's a tortoise beetle, perhaps Charidotella sexpunctata. Those transparent fringe-thingies are pretty distinctive, and I think they only occur in the tortoise beetles (at least in the US).

    Patrick Alexander
    Zeppy
    Shenandoah Valley, VA (Zone 6b)

    June 4, 2006 8:01 PM

    Post #2351587

    Thank you; tortoise beetle it is.

    The fringe around the beetle does look like that around the immature potato beetle... innerestin.

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