Posts Tagged ‘bugs’

Dogbane beetle

10Aug08

I’ve been watching dogbane patches for dogbane beetles for a few weeks – I saw my first one yesterday:

They spend the full lifecycle on the dogbane plant or muching the roots. I believe the plant has toxins that gives the insect chemical protection, just as milkweed does to various bugs. Such an attractive beetle, but [...]


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Eastern forktail

15Dec07

I should be outside exploring winter, but instead I’m inside reviewing images from earlier in the year. Here’s a damselfly from a Cape Cod pond this summer:

About a foot of snow on the ground at the moment – a far cry from the warm pond where I took this, knee deep in the water in [...]


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In your face: Milkweed beetle

03Jul07

We’re heading into peak summer season now – common milkweed is starting to flower, attended by lots of different insects including these familiar red beetles:
I took this one with a 1.4x teleconverter on a macro lens. It was great to get one of these to look right at me like this – they almost look [...]


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