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This should be fun-NOT-beetle larvae? - Leptinotarsa juncta

Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA

Okay these were all taken in about Mid July-in 2003, 2004, 2005. Can you tell me which is which-all were feeding on Night Shade, and Potatoes (my daughter grew potatoes plants in a pot for fun and they nearly killed the plant)

This goes with my confusion with the ID of the Colorade Potato Beetle and it's look alike.

Jo

Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 17 October, 2005 - 10:13pm
Last updated 18 October, 2005 - 6:06pm

Linked as same individual

Apparently they are all different specimens (different individuals); in fact you say that some pictures were not taken the same year. The way to link images in such a case is to use: [thumb:#], where # is the image number. See instructions here.
This avoids confusion. (I have seen images that belonged to different species and even different families linked this way!).
If you are absolutely sure that two images belong to the same specimen, then you use the method that you used here.
By the way, I visited your site and it is really nice, but the link in Bugguide needs to be updated; it took me to the old one first.

… Beatriz Moisset, 17 January, 2006 - 12:52pm

I've been looking these up an

I've been looking these up and this seems to be right-because of the row of black spots-the Colorado Potato Beetle has 2 rows of black spots.

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 2 June, 2006 - 12:35am

Potato Beetle

Looks like potato beetle to me. The image with the "stripes" would be the adult.

… Teri Murphy, 18 October, 2005 - 8:31am

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