These data were collected by students at Morehouse College in Fall 2019. Beetles were reared on blackeyed peas. Beetles were from the LB and SI strains adapted to their host bean for many generations. Beetles were males. Beetles were adults. Beetles were surface-sterilized. Beetles were extracted with QIAGEN DNA-Easy kits. Sequences are for the v4 region. MiSeq sequencing was done by MrDNA labs.