Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata)

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Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata)
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This is your periodic reminder that tortoise beetles are cool.

Fleabane tortoise beetle (Cassida Murraea) on some fleabane flowers

The adult here is green, while the ones I found earlier in the year are red. They change to red as they age, and the ones from earlier in the year are likely last year's adults.

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Tortoise beetle larva stack their own feces of their bodies to ward off predators.

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