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Red Turnip Beetle-Entomoscelis americana

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
Red turnip beetle
Red turnip beetle
Red turnip beetle

13 comments:

  1. Dejemonos sorprenderJanuary 7, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    Hi, beautiful captures.. nice Red Turnip Beetle..
    Greetings..

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  2. Aniruddha DhamorikarJanuary 8, 2011 at 5:17 AM

    Wow, I did not know about these beetles until now, thanks for sharing!

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  3. AndreaJanuary 8, 2011 at 4:24 PM

    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.

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  4. CIMPOACA LAURENTIUJanuary 9, 2011 at 1:10 AM

    nice images...very well documented story

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  5. anushkaJanuary 9, 2011 at 5:13 PM

    NICE WORK...

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  6. KalaJanuary 10, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    You've captured some fabulous details of this beetle (I had never heard of this type before)

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  7. Liou DuvininiJanuary 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM

    Interesante...

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  8. Fan of PhotographyJanuary 13, 2011 at 5:38 AM

    I love these...thanks for sharing!!

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    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

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  10. irfanuddinJanuary 14, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    1st time here on ur space... loved it really...:)

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  11. JameeJanuary 15, 2011 at 6:03 AM

    Such great detail!

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  12. JRandSueJanuary 15, 2011 at 3:23 PM

    Fantastic images,superb Macro photography.
    John.

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  13. MarvinJanuary 16, 2011 at 12:32 PM

    Beautiful leaf beetle and great macros.

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