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Photo Credit: Jeff Hahn, U of MN Image: Striped cucumber beetle.
Photo Credit: Jeff Hahn, U of MN
Striped cucumber beetle
Acalymma vittatum
Size: 1/5 inch long

Where/When: Feeds primarily on cucumbers, squash, melons, and pumpkins. Active from May through August.
Significance: May kill or retard growth of seedlings, if numbers are severe. Vector of bacterial wilt in curcurbits and of cucumber mosaic virus.
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