Posts Tagged: spotted cucumber beetle
It's All About the Community
If you like community gardens, then you'll want to visit the Avant Garden at the corner of First...
A yellow-faced bumble bee on a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hover fly, aka flower fly or syrphid fly, soaking up sunshine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A spotted cucumber beetle and a green metallic sweat bee sharing a cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a male green metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Imposter
'Tis the season for the return of the insects. Many a honey bee foraged in the flowering...
Spotted cucumber beetle inside flowering quince blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee inside flowering quince blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's in the Sunflowers?
So you're walking through a sunflower field and you're seeing lots of honey bees foraging on the...
Melyrid beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spotted cucumber beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Pomegranate Kind of Day
It was a pomegranate kind of day. Red, bright and wonderful.The papery-thin reddish blossoms in our...
Honey bee nearly collides with a ladybug, aka ladybeetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging in pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Flying Cucumber (Beetle)
You usually see them crawling around, but never about to fly.The Western spotted cucumber beetles...
Spotted cucumber beetles crawls along a tangerine leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Antennae twitching rapidly, the spotted cucumber beetle looks around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spotted cucumber beetle lands, and then opens its wing covers preparing for flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)