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Swarming Epicauta on mesquite - Epicauta pardalis
Copyright © 2010 Eric Moody

Swarming Epicauta on mesquite - Epicauta pardalis
Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
June 26, 2010
Maybe E. pardalis? These beetles were at amazing densities on mesquite trees, they seemed to be moving from tree to tree in a swarm.
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Contributed by Eric Moody on 13 July, 2010 - 12:24pm
Last updated 19 July, 2010 - 8:08pm

Moved
Moved from Epicauta.

thanks for the confirmation!
… Eric Moody, 19 July, 2010 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

Epicauta pardalis
commonly swarms on mesquite and may defoliate individual trees. This month (unusually) a very similar species, E. andersoni is very common at the base of the Chiricahua Mtns. on Chaenopodium and Salsola, with E. pardalis on the mesquites in the same area.
… William B. Warner, 16 July, 2010 - 11:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Do you know which one would be on this plant
in western New Mexico?
… john and jane balaban, 13 August, 2013 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

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