Cucurbitaceae
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Cucumber beetle is a common name given to members of two genera of beetles, Diabrotica and Acalymma, both in the family Chrysomelidae. The adults can be found on cucurbits such as cucumbers and a variety of other plants. Many are notorious pests of agricultural crops.
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I found this critter feeding on the Black-eyed Susans.
Our gardens are teeming with insect life if we just take the time to stop and observe...
Happy Labor Day everyone!
Hello awesome Flickr People !!
Today is a green day at Color my World Daily and that is it and all. So on this green day I absolutely had to show you what happened in my vegetable garden…
At the very beginning of the lockdown I panicked and I was sure that at one point in time we will had to fight, not only for toilet paper like it happened in real life, but also for food. There is no way that I will let my sons and husband starve !! Over my dead body !! Food shortage or not, they will have all the necessary and all the unnecessary nutriments to stay alive (even if it is in the shape of nutella or ice cream). So I send my husband to the store and ask him to buy some plants of vegetables for us to plant in our garden. Keep in mind that we have 0 skills in agriculture or even caring for decorative plants of any kind… Our green thumbs are non existant.
My husband came back from the store with several plants of cucumbers (but all different kinds just to make sure that we will never be able to compare them and see which plant is doing better… I'm not criticizing... just telling the facts) , one cherry tomatoes plant, one « giant slicer » (that what was written on the price tag !!) red tomato plant and a pepper plant. The giant slicer did very good. It had ONE (!!! why only one, we will never know ????) huge tomato which I loved like my own child since it appeared on the plant until a horrible squirrel ate the half of it, on the very same day we were planing on harvest our giant tomato for lunch…
The Cherry tomato plant gave us a few tomatoes and I have one pepper so far.
But the huge surprise was the cucumber plant. We had some cucumbers looking like birds… My youngest son is sure my husband bought a very exotic plant by mistake lol.
I dont know if I will try this experience next year (maybe if there is another pandemic … lol just kidding !!!) but I must admit it was entertaining to watch all those plants growing and to fight for our food with squirrels !! I learned a lot about myself and squirrels !!! And my gin & tonic was very helpful during those hard times...
So how do you like my cucumber bird ?
Have a beautiful day my friends !! My hungover is almost finished so everything will be back to normal very soon !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and healthy!! And see you soon on Flickr!!