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Originally Posted by clkeiper
just wondering what the larvae you were clipping off would have been because cucumber beetles lay their eggs in the ground and they emerge in the Spring/Summer. there is no larvae on the plants from them.
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Hmm. I wonder, then, which bugs left the larvae under the leaves that the cucumber beetles so enjoyed eating. I often found the beetles eating the leaves that had larvae on their undersides. The larvae were squishy, tubular, and yellowish-orange in color with black tips -- similar in appearance to potato beetle larvae (thanks, Google Image search!), but those are thicker in the middle. I assumed, based on their coloring and proximity to the cucumber beetles, that they were a match. I guess I have more bugs than I thought!
