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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Galerucini » Section Schematizites » Ophraella » Ophraella americana
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Chrysomelidae, eggs - Ophraella americana
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Chrysomelidae, eggs - Ophraella americana
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
May 7, 2017
Size: .6 mm
May 6, 2017: orange eggs on a native aster on a hill prairie remnant
May 13-16, 2017: 3 larvae, 2 other eggs had internal movement but didn't hatch and seemed to stop moving with time, added a leaf from a back yard woods aster
may 17, 2017: another larva, eating and poohing, good signs
May 20, 2017: opened an egg to a dead larva, later another larva, so there are 4, unfortunately I tossed the rest of the eggs as I thought they were dead, a lesson I find hard to learn, keep longer than you think necessary, and a bit longer
May 22, 2017: first obvious molt
Batch rearing

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 22 May, 2017 - 9:16am
Last updated 16 May, 2018 - 1:17am

Moved
Moved from Ophraella.
… v belov, 16 May, 2018 - 1:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Galerucini.
… Blaine Mathison, 25 December, 2017 - 11:23am login or register to post comments

 
Sorry,
I spaced off I hadn't moved it. I usually only see O. americana.
… MJ Hatfield, 25 December, 2017 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Long-horned and Leaf Beetles.
… MJ Hatfield, 25 May, 2017 - 7:12am login or register to post comments

Something in Galerucini?
Maybe Ophraella or close?

… Yurika Alexander, 22 May, 2017 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

 
Yurika,
I think you did it again. Thanks.
The larvae are still feeding and it doesn't seem to matter which aster leaves I feed them.
Ophraella americana occurs at this location.
… MJ Hatfield, 25 May, 2017 - 7:08am login or register to post comments

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