Can you ID this insect

15 years ago

Can anyone identify this insect please. I want to post it in my blog soon but need some details about it. I will mention the identifier's name and this forum address in my blog if you do not mind. thanks.

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Day_By_Day
15 years ago
Hm, there's probably a site for bugs of India. Might try that. Good luck.
deadmanswill
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15 years ago
Will try to search for an Indian site then. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
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nature07
15 years ago
I too need help identifying an insect. I found an insect a few years back at my mom's in Valdosta, GA. I've only seen it once. It's almost like a beetle, but not really. It's legs are a light orange-ish color. The body it black and it has a large red or dark orange dot on it's back. Can anyone help me? I have a picture of it on my webshots.... my name there is 1Nature3 in My Nature Shots album. If anyone could solve my curiousity, that'd be great!!!

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2359465290099960547ZqdNek
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So,have you find out what that insect is? I think I have the same one in my garden that eats melon leaves. It will fly away whenever I passed by that melon tree. Now my melon tree was gone before it grows up. I planted a new melon tree with just 2 leaves and has been eaten. I think this insect is the culprit.

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