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Cassida viridis
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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cassida viridis L., 1758 (Green Tortoise Beetle)

Date: 2 August 2005
Location: North Wiltshire, England
State: Pupa
Record Summary: Fresh pupa on Lemon Balm leaf
Associated organism: on underside live leaf of Melissa officinalis
Identification Notes: Photographed at 1100hrs when found (fresh), and again at 1800hrs by which time the margin was becoming dark.

Reared - see 2/8/05 [AB]

Images etc

naked eye photograph Pupa - 1100hrs - fresh - dorsal view - highly enlarged 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Pupa - 1100hrs - fresh - dorsal view - highly enlarged 500 by 314 pixels
naked eye photograph Pupa - 1100hrs - fresh - latero-dorsal view - highly enlarged 500 by 318 pixels
naked eye photograph Pupa - 1800 hrs - dorsal view - highly enlarged 500 by 342 pixels

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