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Common names: Flea beetle
Scientific name: Podontia congregata
Place: Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Date: May 25, 2020
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Flea Beetle (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), genus Asphaera lustrans
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Small metallic blue beetle. They are about 3 to 9 mm in length with oval-shaped bodies. Feed on plant leaves. A flea beetles are able to jump away when approached.
Florida, USA
possibly P. chrysocephala, but they're not the easiest to ID!! Never have I seen as many as I have this year!! They're everywhere! More often than not, they ping off into to oblivion (they are flea beetles after all!) before I can get a shot, but managed a few today!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
I found this tiny (about 2mm long if I remember correctly), pretty beetle on a package delivered by a courier and left outside my house. I'd like to think the beetle was a special delivery, but it's more likely that the beetle was already in the garden and climbed on board the box after it was delivered. I'm fairly sure this is the striped flea beetle (Phyllotreta striolata), but am happy to be corrected if it's not.
This is a single image taken in natural light with my MP-E 65mm lens at about 2x magnification.
Passionate Vigilant
Clad in a pink coloring, this flea beetle is quite rare to find. There are barely (just a few) any pictures of this specific coloring of Asphaera in the Internet. I've managed to find similarly colored Asphaera on Google, but not one with these specific patterns, so if any registers exist, they are unknown to me. It could also be an Omophoita, but there is also no certainty on this. Flea beetles feed on vegetables, mostly crops. They possess powerful hind tibiae that allows them to jump really high, feature that got them their common name. They propel themselves when feeling threatened, and once in the air, they proceed to open up the elytra and fly away from potential danger.
Feeding type: Herbivorous.
I found this funky flea beetle on one of my beggarticks (Bidens spp.) this morning! I believe him to be a Disonycha fumata, no common name I could find.
These guys, like all other flea beetles, are capable of ludicrously large leaps when they feel threatened. Luckily for me, this one felt like hanging out and posing a bit first!
If you look, you'll notice some leaf damage directly underneath him. He was actively eating the foliage when I walked up, causing the characteristic "shot-hole" damage these kinds of beetles are known for!
So, I guess that I caught this yellow-and-black banded bandit red handed! Try saying THAT three times fast.
This shot was captured at 1:1 using my Vivitar (Komine) 90mm f2.8 Macro. This photo is uncropped, unlike my poor beggartick's foliage! This furiously feeding flea beetle is around 10-12mm long, making him pretty darn large compared to his cousins!
For seven years, I have hunted high and low on my 'work patch' for Zicrona caerulea!!! We have lots of rosebay willowherb, thousands of Altica flea beetles (their favoured prey), yet I'd never found any until TODAY!!! I first spotted a HUGE colony of Altica sp, and watched for a while, and within minutes, I saw my first shieldbug, and then another, then a pair in cop (as above, female feeding on Altica sp), and in the end I saw a good half dozen shieldbugs!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Even though this beetle was tiny, it was hard to miss! Photographed in the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin.
Crepidodera fulvicornis is a kind of willow flea beetle that can vary a bit in colour. The shine on this one happens to look like it has a blue stripe on the edge of the carapace - kind of neat really.
They're quite small, about 2. 5 mm/. 1" in length which ws why I couldn't get closer than this as the lens combo I had on the camera at the time gets me to about 2.6:1 at most.
I have a(n old) shot of another Crepidodera species which is more colourful here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/18688951216/
Is this the smallest beetle in the world? I think it was not even 2 mm big, and this is the first time I have been able to take a good photo of this species. A cute little creature, isn't it?
This, my friends, is an Orange Passiflora Flea Beetle, or a Parchicola tibialis. This individual is most likely mature, and only comes in at around 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch, or under 1cm for my European friends. They feed primarily on Passiflora spp., such as my Maypop (Passiflora incarnata)! They are, despite the looks, NOT Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles). They are, instead, members of Chrysomelidae (flea beetles)! I witnessed the distinction in person after a few good shots, as this fella launched himself clean to the next vine. Super excited to see specialist activity in the yard, as they only show up in healthy ecosystems with minimal herbicide and pesticide use. It's cool to see a tangible improvement in the diversity of my property after spending all autumn and winter doing what I could to transform a blank bermuda grass lawn. If I can convince even one of you guys and gals to ditch your monoculture yards for diversity, I'll feel accomplished! I wasn't much of a bug guy before this all started, but the colors and designs that grace my lens daily are astounding. This guy, with his aged amber looking coloration, clubbed antennae, and nearly translucent elytra is a stunning example of the diversity I see nowadays! It's worth every single ant bed, cleaver stand, and sweaty afternoon. This shot was captured using my Vivitar (Komine) 90mm f2.8 Macro in 1:1, along with 26mm of extension tubes, for around 1.3:1 magnification.
The hind femurs (thighs) of one group of Leaf Beetles (tribe Alticini) are enlarged and muscular, allowing them to leap quickly away from danger. This has earned them the common name of 'Flea Beetles'.
Crepidodera fulvicornis is a kind of willow flea beetle that can vary a bit in colour. The shine on this one happens to look like it has a blue stripe on the edge of the carapace - kind of neat really.
They're quite small, about 2. 5 mm/. 1" in length which was why I couldn't get closer than this as the lens combo I had on the camera at the time gets me to about 2.6:1 magnification at most.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51728362932/
I have a(n old) shot of another Crepidodera species which is more colourful here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/18688951216/
The flea beetle is a small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae), that makes up the tribe Alticini which is part of the subfamily Galerucinae. Historically the flea beetles were classified as their own subfamily.
Though most tribes of the Galerucinae are suspect of rampant paraphyly in the present delimitation, the Alticini seem to form a good clade.
This small Leaf Beetle is the reddest one I've ever come across. It was one of hundreds feeding on passionflower foliage and flowers (Passiflora pittieri) at a research station in Costa Rica. Since distasteful alkaloids are present in some passionflower species, the vivid colour may be a warning for potential predators to beware.
Vitex trees attract all kinds of pollinators. From bumble bees to flea beetles.
American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Chasteberry Tree (Vitex agnus-castus)
Eight-spotted Flea Beetle (Omophoita cyanipennis)
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One of two similar species that feed on Ragwort, either Longitarsus flavicornis or Longitarsus jacobaeae. 9 shot stack in Zerene
About 3mm, would likely not have seen it if the colours hadn't caught my eye. What a little beauty, and it's powerful hind legs meant it was springtai-esque when it made it's exit!
While exploring the rocks at the Oxnö klippbad bathing site together with my wife, I found a small tuft of grass which really had a whole bunch of little inhabitants.
At the top of one of the tallest blades of grass I found two small birch catkin bugs (Kleidocerys resedae), but as I were shooting them, some sort of black flea beetle (Phyllotreta sp.) decided that it was his turn to be on top and proceeded to climb up on top of one of the catkin bugs.
Being climbed on didn't seem to popular so that one proceded to climb down, but they were all in frame for me there for a brief moment so I got a shot of them.
While I was doing this, my wife snapped a photo of me (I need a haircut) which can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52137414252/
Flea Beetle
I have no idea what this little bug was in my garden. At first I thought it was a little spotless ladybird but i'm not convinced. So any ID would be most grateful! HGGT Thank You Alison for the ID