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Diabrotica undecimpunctata
Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata)

Tiny yarrow flowers are in close up for most of the background for this image. On the edge of the flower cluster is a beetle that at first glance could be a yellow ladybug, solid yellow with a black head and black spots on the elytra. But this is a leaf beetle called a Spotted Cucumber Beetle. The head and pronotum are the wrong shape completely for a lady bug.

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