Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Diabrotica undecimpunctata

4 more pictures above! Today I didn't have any plans for my Picture of the Day so I just popped outside and started looking around. I think I wasn't as inspired as I could be--the truth is that I was really hungry and that's not the time to be taking pictures--so I took about 30 pictures before I decided to go home and try again after lunch. However, as I was about to walk into the house, I noticed a splotch on a Zinnia leaf and went over to investigate. OH!! One of my favorite insects, a Cucumber Bug! It was crawling around under a leaf, and I managed to get a couple of pictures before it went around to the other side to hide. "Little bug, you cannot hide from me!" And I took a picture of its shadow too! :D Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books. Wikipedia: Napoleon Hill

I have always loved these pretty little beetles. They are about the size of a ladybug, and like to eat plant matter. I have always thought they look like little walking jewelry! :) From Wiki: The spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) is a major agricultural pest insect of North America. In the adult form, it eats and damages leaves of many crops, including cucumbers, soybeans, cotton, beans, and many others. In the larval form, which is known as the southern corn rootworm, it tunnels through the roots of young plants, stunting or killing them. These native pests have a wide range of host plants, but will readily infest a field of crop plants, most notoriously corn.