CLOSED: CLOSED: New pepper pest beetle to our Tarrant County TX veg garden

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decherdt Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Apr 28, 2013

Has similarities to potato beetles, has chewed on multiple pepper plants and one tomato.

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Apr 28, 2013

I think it may be a Four-lined Plant Bug, Poecilocapsus lineatus.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 28, 2013

That's correct - see http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/four.html

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