| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Little green bug cute, but turns out to be real bad He and his outlaw cousin, "Striped" Cucumber Beetle, threat to mankind's dinner salads, watermelons, ethanol and corn taco supplies, Irish potatoes, and boiled peanuts, to name a few of life's essentials. By Tony Harvey I don't know if I would call myself a bugologists, I do like to study them no matter what size, color and species. I first have to comment on the quality of this close up that Betty Sue has captured. Very nicely done Betty Sue! With the weather finally warming up I will be getting out and about with my camera. So hopefully, now I can contribute some here with the other fantastic photographers we have here in Adair County. This would be what is known as a Spotted Cucumber Beetle. One of the most destructive beetles is the Eastern Spotted Cucumber Beetle which is greenish yellow with black spots and has brown and yellow antennae. It damages foliage, flowers, and pollen of cucumbers, melons, corn, potatoes, and peanuts. Color and description of this beetle.Oval, flattened, widest at middle. Head, antennae, underside, and legs black; pronotum is dark. Elytra are yellowish green with 12 black spots (2 nearest head join when wings are closed). Larva is yellow with brown head. They are similar to its cousin the Striped Cucumber Beetle. s/Tony Harvey Thanks, Tony Harvey, for alerting us to the downside of this creature, so deceitfully attractive in its appearance. If we had world and enough four year old boys, the bugs could be eradicated in short order. They would play with them, tell them what how cute they are, and then "accidentally" squush them. The world, unfortunately, is in short supply of four-year-old boys, there just aren't enough of them. We're hoping that Barbara Armitage will come to our rescue on the issue let us what to do about him without upsetting the balance of nature, now that we've learned more about his M.O. . -EW This story was posted on 2008-04-01 09:59:33
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic News:
Feedback: ACPL bugologists ID spotted cucumber beetle Class Act Relay 4 Life team will conduct raffle Adair photographers urged to enter Redbud Trails 2008 Contest CM Site Notes: Events, Celebrations, search reminder GIGO Diary, for 2008-03-31: Last GIGO entry sums up recycling (ADV) Adair County Real Estate Agents Bloomington Chapel fundraiser Saturday, April 19, 2008 Hunter Education at AC Sportsman's Club April 3, 4, 5, 2008 CJE Melton, Sue Stivers attend tourism session in Chattanooga Intrepid Team Relay 4 Life Yard Sale April 4, 5, 2008 View even more articles in topic News |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
