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Macro Monday – Can you identify this insect?

Hello, friends! First of all I want to wish you a very beautiful week ahead! As you know, on Monday I use to post macro photos in my rubric Macro Monday.

This is a weekly theme and I would like all lovers of macro photography to “adopt” this Monday theme.

I found this beetle in the park on a solanum dulcamara plant. It is a larvae stage. 

These beetles were the nightmare of my childhood, because my mother asked me to gather them whenever I found them in the garden.?

Adults measure about 10 mm in length and are yellow-orange with many black stripes on the elytra. They are robust and oval in upper view. The head has a triangular black patch and the chest has irregular black markings.

The orange-pink larvae have a large abdomen(nine segmented) and black head. Usually they have two rows of black spots on the sides.

The challenge today is to identify this insect.

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  • Can you identify this insect?

    • It is a Ladybug larva
    • It is a False Potato Beetle Larva
    • This is a Colorado potato beetle

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Written by Ileana Calotescu

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