At the Agricultural Research Station in Connecticut, they study insect damage to plants. They provide great information about insects related to plants. Very useful for anyone who is into gardening and wants to learn more about the subject. | Insects and their Injury to Plants |
A grasshopper is watching me. He likes the leaves of one of our plants, always ready to jump far away in case of danger.
A very small grasshopper wants to eat our plants that we have shielded with a fine-meshed net.
Another grasshopper enjoys the sun on a white wall.
We always see the walkingstick on light surfaces, it is about +15 centimeters long. It seems the female does not need a man to make children, she can do that all by herself!
The greater banded hornet, the sting can cause pain and swelling. We don't want a nest of them, one is enough because they eat other insects.
Aristobia approximator, according to wikipedia a medium-sized, brightly colored longhorn beetle, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristobia_approximator.
Aristobia approximator eating leaves from our Rose Apple tree.
An other leave-eating insect is the rapeseed shine beetle. We can live with leaf eaters, but we don't like them touching our fruit or vegetables
A caterpillar crawls on a twig searching for food. Let's hope that this caterpillar will soon become a colorful butterfly. We are proud that we do not spray our fruit and vegetables with harmful pesticides, everything is unsprayed.
A smaller and a larger scorpion hid and were startled, now they are trying to get to safety. Thank goodness most scorpions are not dangerous or life-threatening.
Apparently it is not a worm, but a black blind snake. It is about 20 centimeters long, but harmless. On rainy days, at dark, they emerge from the underground in large numbers. Children catch them and sell them. If they stay in the sun for too long, they dry out.
The damage to the leaves speaks for itself, the leaves are cut remarkably straight and an insect uses the leaves as a cocoon. We still don't know what insect it is! Maybe a leafcutter bee?
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