A few more insect photos.

[mike_c]

Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2020, 02:28 AM - Edit history (2)

This is the iron cross blister beetle.




The long jawed longhorn beetle.




And bringing up the rear is Sleeper's elephant beetle.



I hope you like them!

[Bayard]

1. All I know

Is that blister beetles found in hay were causing a lot of horse health problems in the west several years ago.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Yeah, they travel in swarms and wiped out one of my gardens one year.

I'm in the mountains so we have 8 small gardens about 100 ft x 100 ft scattered among the steep slopes. Wherever there is a flat spot, I plant a garden. The slopes are where the sheep and goats graze.

The blister bettles seemed to really enjoy the tomatoes but they moved on to anything available and cleared out everything in the one garden in about 15 days.....But they never found the other gardens.

I let the garden go dormant for a year and grazed the chickens on it. Then when I replanted it, no blister beetles.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. And I DO like them, my dear mike_c!

These are amazingly detailed, so much so, that I can practically feel them.

Wonderful shots! Hardly scraping the bottom of the hard drive, lol!

Thank you for sharing them.

[patricia92243]

5. Who knew bugs could be so pretty. Thanks for posting.

[Callalily]

6. The detail is amazing.