From Wikipedia:
The spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) is a major agricultural pest insect of North America.
In the adult form, it eats and damages leaves of many crops, including cucumbers, soybeans, cotton, beans, and many others. In the larval form, which is known as the southern corn rootworm, it tunnels through the roots of young plants, stunting or killing them. These native pests have a wide range of host plants, but will readily infest a field of crop plants, most notoriously corn.
Adult beetles are greenish-yellow with six large black spots on each elytron (the modified, hardened forewing) They are about 1/4" long. The larvae are yellowish and wormlike.
It also eats many kinds of flowers and vegetables, and also ripening peaches and apricots.
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