Growing Small Farms: Mexican Bean Beetle

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Mexican Bean Beetle

Photos by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.

Description and Biology of Mexican Bean Beetles

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Adults newly emerged from pupal skin.
The pale yellow color will gradually
change to the characteristic copper color.

Mexican bean beetle egg cluster and tiny first instar larvae

Mexican bean beetle larvae and pupa. The white fuzz
at the tip of the
pupa is the accumulation of cast skin

Defoliation caused by Mexican bean beetles

Mexican bean beetle pupae (yellow) and parasitized mummy (brown)

close-up of Mexican bean beetle mummy

close-up pf Mexican bean beetle pupae

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This page last updated January 16, 2006.

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