Red Turnip Beetle (Entomoscelis americana) is a small striped beetle in the family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) that attacks on plants in mustard family, such as turnips, radishes, rapeseed, cabbages, flixweed and canola etc. The adult beetle is about 7 to 10 mm long. It has a bright red head and wing cases, with a black patch just behind the head and three black stripes on their back. The remaining body is black.
Red turnip beetles-Entomoscelis americana
13 comments:
Hi, beautiful captures.. nice Red Turnip Beetle..
Greetings..
Wow, I did not know about these beetles until now, thanks for sharing!
It's a beautiful cute beetle. I would also love to capture them but my lens seem to be limited for small things. How i wish i have a macro lens.
nice images...very well documented story
NICE WORK...
You've captured some fabulous details of this beetle (I had never heard of this type before)
Interesante...
I love these...thanks for sharing!!
Nice macro :) they look so amazing.there are so many different types of beetles and i keep discovering new kinds :) thanks for the post..you can check out colorful beetle at picxy
1st time here on ur space... loved it really...:)
Such great detail!
Fantastic images,superb Macro photography.
John.
Beautiful leaf beetle and great macros.
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