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Leaf beetle? - Chrysomela crotchi - male - female
Copyright © 2010 Lonny

Leaf beetle? - Chrysomela crotchi - Male Female
near Denbeigh about 20 miles east of Minot., Ward County, North Dakota, USA
July 22, 2010
Size: 9mm female 7mm male
Found mating and feeding on poplar trees.

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Contributed by Lonny on 22 July, 2010 - 1:57pm
Last updated 24 July, 2010 - 12:36am

Moved tentatively -- must be Ch. crotchi, NEW TO BG!
will seek confirmation, but in any case it's something never posted before. thanks again, Lonny -- keep up the fantastic work; you've already put ND on the BG map like nobody before you, no kiddin'.

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 24 July, 2010 - 12:36am login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by S.M. Clark: Ch. crotchi
… v belov, 2 August, 2010 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID!
As well as many other ID's, and for the compliment.
… Lonny, 24 July, 2010 - 9:10am login or register to post comments

Chrysomela -- dunno which one, sorry
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… v belov, 22 July, 2010 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Poplar leaf beetle!
Chrysomela populi thanks for the help!
… Lonny, 22 July, 2010 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

 
not sure
i grew up in a place where Ch. populi was arguably the most commonly seen large chrysomelid, and i've seen thousands and thousands of them, but the pronotum was invariably green/blue metallic rather than black. that was, of course, in the eastern hemisphere. there are two other relatively common Palaearctic spp. with all-red elytra and uniformly dark (also metallic) pronota, and remember well how they look.
i'm not even sure any of them occur on this continent at all -- don't see any records in Canada or New England, which would be the most likely places such an invasion might be reasonably expected to start.
… v belov, 23 July, 2010 - 7:01pm login or register to post comments

 
The pronotum were metallic green.
apologies for not mentioning this. Sadly I can't always get my camera to pick up the colors of insects as I would like. I assume this is because the colors in most metallic looking insects are as I understand not really pigmented, but just that color because of how they reflect light.
… Lonny, 24 July, 2010 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

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