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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Lytta » Subgenus Paralytta (Lytta Subgenus Paralytta) » Reticulata Group (Lytta Reticulata Group) » Lytta deserticola
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Unknown Beetle - Lytta deserticola
Copyright © 2012 Minerbm

Unknown Beetle - Lytta deserticola
Apple Valley, Washington County, Utah, USA
August 22, 2012
Size: 22 mm
Please let me know anything you can about this beetle and what they eat. Will they damage any of my trees or plants? What can I use to stop them.
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Contributed by Minerbm on 22 August, 2012 - 10:16pm

Moved tentatively & cropped for the guide; Lytta deserticola
should not be a problem -- not a pest anyway; how many do you see on a single tree?
[btw, we do not provide insect control advice on this site, as a matter of policy]

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 22 August, 2012 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Pest Control
There are about 20 in one "purple chaste" tree. We have never seen them before yesterday when suddenly they were appearing all over.

I understand about the pest control advice issue, I was just wondering if they would damage any of my plants and it sounds like this will not be a problem anyway.
… Minerbm, 22 August, 2012 - 11:11pm login or register to post comments

 
about 20 is okay...
they'll eat a bit of greenery, but do no harm. it's a native species, so may be they've had a nice year and are now more visible than usual :]
their larvae parasitize grasshopper eggs.
… v belov, 23 August, 2012 - 12:12am login or register to post comments

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