{"id":10988,"date":"2016-09-10T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:40:31","slug":"diabrotica-undecimpunctata-spotted-cucumber-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10988","title":{"rendered":"<em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em> (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10990\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10990\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Diabrotica undecimpunctata (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10990\" data-wp-pid=\"10990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160910_130986.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em> (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was out looking for things to photograph today and happened to see a small, pink moth. It was only about 9mm long and I managed to get some reasonable pictures of it. I believe it&#8217;s a <em>Pyrausta inornatalis<\/em>, although the literature doesn&#8217;t mention it being here in Maryland. I&#8217;ve posted a picture to BugGuide to check my identification. In the meantime, here&#8217;s one I can identify. While I was down on the ground photographing the moth, I noticed this little beetle. it&#8217;s about the same length as the moth, under 10mm in length (not counting its antenae) but quite brightly colored. As the title of this post says, this is a spotted cucumber beetle (<em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em>). This is a major pest of many field crops including cucumbers and other squashes, corn, and soy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out looking for things to photograph today and happened to see a small, pink moth. It was only about 9mm long and I managed to get some reasonable pictures of it. I believe it&#8217;s a Pyrausta inornatalis, although the literature doesn&#8217;t mention it being here in Maryland. I&#8217;ve posted a picture to BugGuide &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}