Currant (ribes rubrum) pest

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Does anyone know what this beetle is in my photos? I watched it do something on a flower cluster for at least 10 min. My developing currant fruit clusters are eaten every year. I have seen gooseberry sawfly caterpillars on some neighborhood plants, but this bug I caught does not look like that species.

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Eino Kenttä

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No idea what species (or even family) that is, but it doesn't look like a beetle. I'd say it's something in the Heteroptera. More related to stink bugs than to beetles. Hopefully someone who knows more about insects than I do can give you a more specific ID.

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Box Elder bug

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Esther Platt

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It doesn't have the diagonal X pattern that I've seen on boxelder bugs, so I don't know. I guess I will discover later if it is destructive. In the meantime, I have this one in a container.

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