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woodcreekcon said:Hi,
I live in 7b also (but in GA), and I know this reply is years too late, but thought I'd answer it anyway since someone else may be looking for the same thing. Your amaranth bug is striped cucumber beetle.

Welcome to the forum. Wondering why you disagree with its having been identified as the pigweed flea beetle above, compare with these pictures, the three spots on the pronotum match and are not present on the cuke beetle, also the colour of the stripes is different (assuming not the western cucumber beetle)

Pigweed flea beetle:
https://bugguide.net/node/view...

Striped cucumber beetle:
https://bugguide.net/node/view...