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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Flea Weevils (Rhamphini) » Rhamphina » Orchestes » European Elm Flea Weevil (Orchestes steppensis)
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okay do beetles mine? - Orchestes steppensis
Copyright © 2012 Edna Woodward

okay do beetles mine? - Orchestes steppensis
Buffalo, Johnson County, Oregon, USA
July 8, 2012
okay a few days ago i found a couple leaf mines which seemed to have (what i thought was coccons) in them when i held them to the light...so i saved them.i think the tree is cottonwood..today i have 2 tiny beetles in the container..

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okay do beetles mine? - Orchestes steppensis okay do beetles mine? - Orchestes steppensis
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Contributed by Edna Woodward on 8 July, 2012 - 12:10pm
Last updated 24 November, 2014 - 11:43am

Moved
Moved from Orchestes.
… v belov, 24 November, 2014 - 11:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… v belov, 4 August, 2012 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 13 July, 2012 - 2:43am login or register to post comments

Not sure about leaf mine but...
That beetle looks similar to European Elm Flea Weevil?

… Yurika Alexander, 8 July, 2012 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

 
its in the same genus at least
The larvae are leafminers. There are quite a few beetles that are leafminers.
… Brad Barnd, 8 July, 2012 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

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