Re: Beetle
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Beetle
- From: D* B* T*
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:25:24 -0500
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Gerry, thank you so much! I'll send a copy of your email to our extension
office so they're enlighted as well. I can see the "tortoise" part of the
name--how endearing (though I'm not too sentimental in the garden!).
Diann
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Gerry/Bob O'Neill
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:26 AM
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [SG] Beetle
>
>
> Diann,
>
> I finally remembered to check on your beetle at work. It is the Golden
> Tortoise Beetle, Metriona bicolor. Common over eastern North
> America, likes
> wild morning glory, sweet potato (!), raspberry and maize (?).
>
> Another similar beetle that feeds on the same plants is the Milkweek
> Tortoise Beetle, Chelymorpha cassidea. It looks similar, except is duller,
> brick red or yellow, and the edge of the "shell" is transparent. I
> frequently find the two of them together on the same plant.
>
> Gerry
>
