Day 214
We were doing some flower/herb garden bed clean up when we were visited by this beetle.
After doing a google search I found our friend. This is a ten-lined June beetle. Another name for him is the watermelon beetle. He is a scarab beetle and they are found in western USA and Canada. When we picked him up and placed him on this leaf so I can take his photograph he made a hissing sound sort of like a bat hiss.
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| Top view ~ ten -lined June Beetle |
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| Side View ~ about 2 1/2 inches long |
He is not poisonous and does not bite. He can be a pest, he loves to eat the roots in your garden.
See you soon!
Jewels
"Play in the dirt, because life is too short to always have clean fingernails."
Recent figures indicate that there are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet! In fact, of the approximately one million species of insects, man considers only a fraction as pests. Still, insects continue to be undervalued. They are lumped together as creepy crawlies and their mere sight can send people flying to get the spray can of insecticide. Considering Japan's relatively small size along with the multitude of native insect pests, this country can be considered one of the most insect pest-populated countries in the world. Good and or bad for the garden and nature we share this planet with some strange creatures.
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