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False Potato Beetle - Leptinotarsa juncta
This beetle is easily confused with easily confused with the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. The False Potato Beetle has alternating black and white strips on its back, just like the Colorado Potato Beetle, but one of the white stripes in the center of each wing cover is missing and replaced by a light brown stripe.
Habitat: Rural yard
The false potato beetle is a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States. Its distribution extends to Ohio and New Jersey. Adult beetles emerge from the soil in the late spring or early summer and begin breeding, and a population may go through one to three generations in a summer.
Similar species: Beetles
By Christine Young
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Uploaded Dec 20, 2018. Captured Jul 22, 2006 11:29 in 1-37 Parker St, Coventry, RI 02816, USA.
