{"id":19499,"date":"2020-09-08T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19499"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:27:24","slug":"diabrotica-undecimpunctata-spotted-cucumber-beetle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19499","title":{"rendered":"<em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em> (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19501\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19501\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Diabrotica undecimpunctata (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_20200908_178296.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em> (Spotted Cucumber Beetle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was down on the ground taking some photos of a skipper on some blue mistflower (<em>Conoclinium coelestinum<\/em>) when I noticed this spotted cucumber beetle (<em>Diabrotica undecimpunctata<\/em>) just to my right. I got a handful of photos of it before it flew away and I actually got a fairly good one of it just taking off. I think this is a better picture, overall, though, so I thought I&#8217;d use it. This is a destructive insect and really I should have squashed it, but it flew away before I had the chance. They do significant damage to many field crops &#x201c;including cucumbers and other squashes, corn, soy.&#x201d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down on the ground taking some photos of a skipper on some blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) when I noticed this spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) just to my right. I got a handful of photos of it before it flew away and I actually got a fairly good one of it just taking &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19499\">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":[2595,1197,1198,1993,1992,73,1677,1994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499"}],"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=19499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}