Insect Quiz July, 2006

July 2006 Quiz

You are in your garden one morning when you notice a fairly large beetle.  It kind of looks like a June beetle but it is orangish in color.  It also has six black spots, three on each margin of its wing covers.  You only see the one insect and you aren’t even sure where it came from.

1.  What is this insect?

2.  What does it eat?

3.  Is it damaging to plants?

4.  What is the best method to control it?