I was hiking and collecting zebra swallowtail caterpillars off of pawpaws (asimina reticulata). I kept seeing these bugs on the pawpaws and just wondered if anyone knew what they were. I was wondering if they were any threat to the caterpillars or if they were benign.
Melanie
I think it's a flea beetle, Disonycha fumata. Or at least closely related. They eat leaves.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4520
Thanks, I'd never seen anything quite like it before and didn't even know where to begin to look!
