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Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from 0.8 to 18 mm. The family is commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world
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The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug, is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. Native to the Rocky Mountains, it spread rapidly in potato crops across America and then Europe from 1859 onwards.
This one was sitting in my garden with no potato field in miles around, so I left it alone...
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HMM.... the theme this week is beetles or beatles and my mom's box o' brass buttons saved the day again ~grin~
as far as size is concerned, the ladybug could fit on a dime
Everyone recognizes lady beetles, or ladybugs, and welcomes them into their gardens. Unfortunately, baby lady beetles look nothing like they do as adults. Instead of bright red shells and black dots, ladybug larvae resemble tiny black alligators and do not look like something you want crawling around your plants. Take a good look, because the last thing you want to do is kill these garden allies before they reach maturity.
A small beetle that I found under a log on 3/9/21. When it's this early in the year and we are just starting to have random intermittent warm days, my go to spots for finding insects are under rotten logs and under rocks. You tend to mostly find isopods, centipedes, and millipedes but it's still great to be out interacting with nature again after the dreary indoor winter months.
Another image of a Tansy Beetle, this time on a sunnier sunrise which produced some lovely bokeh in the background. This little Beetle posed perfectly!
I found this rather impressive beetle on a peony blossom recently. Because there's a few beetles that look quite similar, I'm not 100% sure of its ID, but I think this is a Trigonarthris minnesotana. If you know otherwise, please let me know.
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This little guy was quite the acrobatic, using grass stems to travel between Tansy plants after a recent downpour. The rain had caused a lot of the grass to bend over in the weight of the water. I guess it was easier to travel via them rather than all the way to the ground and back up again.
There were four of these brightly coloured beetles on a spreading dogbane plant, a very pretty wildflower. Three of the beetles hid from the lens but this one decided to cooperate, lucky me!
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A Forked Fungus Beetle. I photographed it where I found it on this big orange mushroom in a wooded area near Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. These guys apparently play dead when they feel threatened. This explains why it looked dead to me but I thought I saw it move a little bit while I was photographing it.
Focus stack of 10 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE 65mm macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400.
Kind of like a tightrope walker, this tiny gray bug was moving along the top of an unfolding hibiscus petal. It turned out to be a little beetle, apparently a "variegated carpet beetle." I don't know about the garden, but apparently we really don't want them to get into the house...
Ladybugs, also called lady beetles or ladybird beetles, are a very beneficial group. They are natural enemies of many insects, especially aphids and other sap feeders. A single lady beetle may eat as many as 5,000 aphids in its lifetime.