Episode 45: Epilachna varivestis - The Mexican Bean Beetle

Learn about a ladybird that is one of the world's worst pests of soybeans. 

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Photo by Stephen Ausmus, 21st March 2006 for Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epilachna_varivestis_(cropped).jpg 

Sources:

https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19620501187

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/bean/mexican_bean_beetle.htm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0098847288900469

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09583157.2013.809404

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925857419303842