Bug-ger Off

Whilst cleaning out the shed down the hill Rod discovered these small bettles gathered in large infestations behind sheets of board. We tried to identify them using google but the closest we could find from an American site was cucumber beetle.

Just this week I chanced on an article in our local newspaper The Courier - “the adult beetle is about 6mm long (check) yellowish to olive green (check) with a black stripe along each side of the back (check mate!) So there you go it is Elm Beetle. Our elm tree is being attacked but we have never seen the culprits.