Black Jalapeno Flower w Cucumber Beetle 5/30/2012

[Gudenhot]

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3WFhsz0c7aXR0lBLUo2S0h3ckU

Taken today. To the unexperienced, this would be a nice nature pic. However, this is not a good sign seeing cucumber beetles so early in the season.

 

[Prehensile]

try that again, I ain't messin with google

 

[JDFan]

That looks more like a Lady bug than a cuke beetle !!

Here is a pic of a Cuke Beetle

 

[Gudenhot]

They are both cucumber beetles. Neither good.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Cucumber bettles have a pronounced head and thorax that are skinnier than their body,spotted or striped.

 

[spicy_echo]

If that first picture is not a lady bug then I'm screwed