Red Hot Love - _TNY_3196
If you ask anyone with a garden and who has tried growing lilies, most of them would say this is a pair of lily beetles (Lilioceris lilii) - and that they don't like them. Now, lily beetles are very effective (but as adults and as larvae) at eating and destroying lilies so the reaction is understandable.
This however isn't actually liily beetles. Instead it is the closely realted onion beetle (Lilioceris merdigera) busy making more beetles on the leaf of a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) at the southern tip of lake Stensjön in the Tyresta National Park south of Stockholm, Sweden.
The principal visual difference between lily and onion beetles is that the former has black legs and head and the rest of it is bright red while the latter here also has red legs and on top of the head.
Red Hot Love - _TNY_3196
If you ask anyone with a garden and who has tried growing lilies, most of them would say this is a pair of lily beetles (Lilioceris lilii) - and that they don't like them. Now, lily beetles are very effective (but as adults and as larvae) at eating and destroying lilies so the reaction is understandable.
This however isn't actually liily beetles. Instead it is the closely realted onion beetle (Lilioceris merdigera) busy making more beetles on the leaf of a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) at the southern tip of lake Stensjön in the Tyresta National Park south of Stockholm, Sweden.
The principal visual difference between lily and onion beetles is that the former has black legs and head and the rest of it is bright red while the latter here also has red legs and on top of the head.