Below: a large milkweed bug in its natural habitat.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Landscape, with bug
Milkweed seems to be one of the big happening places for the local insects, so when I spotted a few plants on my way home from work yesterday, I pulled over for a closer look. Mainly, I was hoping to find a monarch caterpillar, though I would have settled (with some trepidation), for a tarantula hawk, an immense black wasp which has a fondness for milkweed, though its main diet is. . .well, what it sounds like a tarantula hawk should eat. Whether I was too early or too late, or whether milkweed is just not "in" this year, there was little to see beyond the plant itself and a few languid representatives of Oncopeltus fasciatus. Oncopeltus fasciatus is a mouthful to say, and I have no idea what it means, but it is somewhat more original than "large milkweed bug" which is what they are in straightforward English.
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4 comments:
A NICE SHOT! How could you see (find?) the bug was there.. you're really talented to find (recognize?) small small bugs and take good pics!
angelsprings
You are very kind. But I must tell you, today I am excited because over this week I took a whole bunch of pictures that are NOT of bugs!!! :-)
Ookay. I thought you recognize bugs easily because you can hear them calling you or something... - like "Molly I'm here! Take picts of me!!"... But maybe not.. :)
angelspings
Ha ha! Don't give the bugs any ideas--they're distracting enough already!
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