I will look..  I can damage a pumpkin and put it next to the hives.  
Around here we have always had  a small beetle extremely similar to SHB but
with yellow spots on the wings  (2 or 4 spots) We called them cantaloupe
beetles because they loved cantaloupe (they are not)


Last year I tried raising beetles for a test on a beetle trap.  The adults
survive on Pineapple just fine,  but the larva did not.  That's as far as I
got.


Charles

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Charlie, if possible, could you check the pumpkin patch to see whether SHB
are using the pumpkins as an alternate host?  They do so with some other
cucurbits.  In Hawaii, beetles breed in fallen fruit, and then fly to
hives, which are more attractive.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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