I'll Eat Your Leaves If You Let Me
May 1, 2020 09:59:31 #
This is one of my preserved Japanese Beetles and although their colors are an array of quite beautiful metallic hues, they can quickly devastate the the leaves of plants.
May 1, 2020 11:15:20 #
Weird how that projection goes in front of the eye. Great stack as usual, sippy.
May 1, 2020 11:27:24 #
kpmac wrote:
Weird how that projection goes in front of the eye. Great stack as usual, sippy.
Kpmac, I've noticed that several beetles have that feature. I suspect that it acts like a "brush guard" to help keep objects from poking their eyes as they push their heads into foliage and debris and digging like little bulldozers looking for food.
May 1, 2020 18:22:21 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is one of my preserved Japanese Beetles and although their colors are an array of quite beautiful metallic hues, they can quickly devastate the the leaves of plants.
I've never seen one of these, and they are quite beautiful! Amazing shot, Sippy.
May 1, 2020 21:33:02 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
I've never seen one of these, and they are quite beautiful! Amazing shot, Sippy.
This is what they look like on-the-hoof. Depending on how the light strikes them they shimmer with different hues of metallic colors. They are voracious eaters and they strip a leaf leaving only the veins which look like they are made of fine lace.
They are highly invasive and can be devastating to plants. Absolutely an undesirable critter to have around your home yet wonderful for me to capture and preserve as specimens.
May 1, 2020 23:20:31 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is what they look like on-the-hoof. Depending on how the light strikes them they shimmer with different hues of metallic colors. They are voracious eaters and they strip a leaf leaving only the veins which look like they are made of fine lace.
They are highly invasive and can be devastating to plants. Absolutely an undesirable critter to have around your home yet wonderful for me to capture and preserve as specimens.
They are highly invasive and can be devastating to plants. Absolutely an undesirable critter to have around your home yet wonderful for me to capture and preserve as specimens.
May 2, 2020 06:12:23 #
75 years ago I used to catch these by the coffee can full. Hard to find a bug these days by comparison. Now I want to photograph them LOL.
May 2, 2020 08:38:57 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is one of my preserved Japanese Beetles and although their colors are an array of quite beautiful metallic hues, they can quickly devastate the the leaves of plants.
beautiful work...we used to have sooo many Japanese beetles years ago, but hardly any now.
they just ruined our crape myrtles and other flowers.
May 2, 2020 08:59:08 #
May 2, 2020 09:13:14 #
May 2, 2020 09:54:42 #
Don, the 2nd son wrote:
75 years ago I used to catch these by the coffee can full. Hard to find a bug these days by comparison. Now I want to photograph them LOL.
Thanks, I've become the same way and I have an appreciation of their world myself now.
May 2, 2020 09:56:31 #
merrytexan wrote:
beautiful work...we used to have sooo many Japanese beetles years ago, but hardly any now.
they just ruined our crape myrtles and other flowers.
they just ruined our crape myrtles and other flowers.
Thanks, I find it amazing that they can eat so much however it appears that they have a never ending appetite.
May 2, 2020 09:56:55 #
May 2, 2020 09:58:21 #
HOT Texas wrote:
Excellent Sippy!!!!
Thanks, I can imagine that you have a lot of them down there.
May 2, 2020 10:11:07 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, I can imagine that you have a lot of them down there.
Yep sure do, I see them in the middle of flowers, not much on the leaves.
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