CLOSED: Bright yellow with black hairs - eating veggie leaves!

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greenstacie Silver Spring, MD Jul 31, 2008

I found many of these on my cucumber plants, eating the leaves in thorough sections. They are about 1/4 inch long. I also found one on a green bean plant this morning.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 31, 2008

This most likely is a larva of the squash beetle, Epilachna borealis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) - see http://entweb.clemson.edu/cuentres/cesheets/veg/ce104.htm, whereas any similar larva on a member of the bean family likely would be Epilachna varivestis, the Mexican bean beetle - see http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/veg/bean/mexican_bean_beetle.htm
Beetles in the genus Epilachna are the 'black sheep' of the ladybird beetle family, munching down on veggies rather than on the aphids attacking the plants.

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greenstacie Silver Spring, MD Jul 31, 2008

Thanks!

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