Subject: ID bug
Location: Denver, CO
July 21, 2017 5:21 pm
What is this bug?
Signature: Donna
Dear Donna,
Based on this BugGuide image, we feel confident that this is a Bumble Flower Beetle, Euphoria inda. According to BugGuide: “Adults emerge in the late summer, overwinter, and then become active in the early spring, which accounts for the bimodal curve in adult activity” and “Adults visit flowers for pollen and/or nectar. Sometimes damage flowers. Also takes rotting fruit, corn, sap, other plant juices.”