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filth covered orange insect - Lilioceris lilii
Copyright © 2008 apgarm

filth covered orange insect - Lilioceris lilii
Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
August 7, 2008
Size: ~6mm
Found several munching on neighbor's plants. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I did not see any prolegs when I turned one upside down (after cleaning it). Is this some sort of beetle larva?

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Contributed by apgarm on 7 August, 2008 - 4:36pm
Last updated 14 August, 2008 - 9:08pm

Probably should have mentioned...
that they were on Lilies...

Lilioceris lilii - Lily Leaf Beetle

A good picture:


More images here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/20177

And my neighbor had mentioned that he had seen some red beetles hanging around a few days before. Betting that they looked like this:


So I'm assuming that these will be frassed. The only question I have is can the geographical data be updated without an image? bugguide currently has no Connecticut record.
… apgarm, 7 August, 2008 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

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