Photograph of squash (‘Turks Turbin’) (top left), cucumber (‘Marketmore 76’) (bottom center), and pumpkin (‘Magic Lantern’) (top right) plants from the laboratory no-choice feeding study

Abstract

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Confirmation of bean leaf beetle, , feeding on cucurbits"</p><p>Journal of Insect Science 2004;4():-.</p><p>Published online 20 Feb 2004</p><p>PMCID:PMC455679.</p><p>Copyright © 2004. Open access; copyright is maintained by the authors.</p> Note the decrease in cotyledon size and increase in intensity of feeding damage from squash to pumpkin to cucumber. Damage to each plant was caused by ten adults over 72 h