Ten-lined or Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), family Chrysomelidae, Germany
Native to the Western U.S., introduced into Europe.
Photographs by Bernd Goritzka
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Ten-lined or Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), family Chrysomelidae, Germany
Native to the Western U.S., introduced into Europe.
Photographs by Bernd Goritzka
@vexing-wingull submitted: A few very nice friends! All were taken in and around Cholula, Mexico.
I love them all but that last moth is beautiful! I can’t ID the dragonfly just from that photo but the beetle looks like a subspecies of one of the potato beetles, Leptinotarsa undecimlineata ssp. signaticollis. The moth is a four-spotted palpita, which is a type of pearl moth!
False Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta), family Chrysomelidae, Magee Marsh, OH, USA
photographs by Julie Beall
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Some cool focus-stacked shots of a Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) taken through a dissecting scope.
Gli adulti della Dorifora sono rivestiti da una bella livrea gialla e nera, e raggiungono le dimensioni di 8-12 cm di lunghezza. Le larve, di colore arancio e con due file di punti neri sul dorso, nascono in primavera da uova deposte sul margine inferiore delle foglie. Inizialmente sono piuttosto piccole (1-2 mm) crescono rapidamente divorando tutto finché si affondano nel terreno per diventare adulti. Nei mesi di luglio e agosto si sviluppa la seconda generazione di larve che, una volta diventate adulte, passano l’inverno sottoterra