The age of Colorado beetles can be determined, for at least 20–23 days after emergence, by means of the colour of the membranous hind‐wings. The colour changes are described and a series of colour reproductions illustrate the appearance of a selection of wings during the first 25 days after emergence from the soil.
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Erica H. Dunn (1951) studied this question.