Insects are masters of disguise.
Sometimes the camouflage works…
… and sometimes it doesn’t.
Category: Bug of the Week (Page 156 of 218)
Yesterday was a lovely day for a walk through a botanical garden. It’s enough to make one wax poetic.
Flowers dressing up with a bee for jewelry.
The warm brown seed beetle looks rather like the seed it was born inside.
Another kind of green malachite attracts your eye.
Captivating captive beauties.
Feels like we need some words of wisdom today. How about:
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our penstemons have been flowering.
Nectar from these flowers are a favorite food of hummingbirds and all sorts of bees.
A few days ago I also noticed some eggs on the flower petals.
They are the eggs of the cabbage looper moth. We’ve seen them in the yard before.
What is that sliver-like thing that is walking over the eggs?
It is a thrips!
Different species of thrips feed on a wide variety of items, including flower pollen and insect eggs. I’m not sure whether this one was feeding or not.
In any case, the eggs had all disappeared the next day. They may have hatched or they may have been eaten.
Who knew so much drama could occur within a single flower?
Do penstemons grow where you live? Are they blooming yet?
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