Saturday, August 22, 2009

Striped mystery beetle


I found this bug while I was raking leaves. I put him on a desert mallow for safe keeping. I have no idea what species this is.

jg

Update: Icesign adds this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_potato_beetle

2 comments:

icesign said...

I'm not sure, but it looks like "colorado potato beetle". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_potato_beetle

jg said...

Icesign, thanks for your help. I've added a close up comparison between the two.
John