Texas Gardening: cut worm take over, 2 by Loonie1

Loonie1 wrote:
Here are the beetles. The single beetle is on a Sunflower and the 2 Beetles are on the Bog Sage (you can really see the damage they are doing to the Bog Sage). The 3rd photo is a Sunflower, just to show the damage. I haven't seen any other insects or worms on these plants, so it has to be these Beetles doing this damage, right? Nothing I have sprayed has stopped them at all. They are really reeking havoc with the Bog Sage, but are also damaging Salvia Garanitica, Mealy Blue, Salvia Greggii, Coreopsis, and you can see some damage on the Cigar Plant which is under the Sunflower frond. I hope someone can ID them. If they are soon to run their course, I will ignore them. But it is hard to ignore such damage. :-(

Carla