backyard bugs.

[tamrock]

This bug in the first 3 photos is new to me. I took a hanging plant down to water and then this rather buzzing bumblebee sounding guy comes along. It hovered into the center of the flower and went at it like it was getting nectar for a moment and then it landed on the flower and started folding the flower up. I don't know if that was intentional or it did it to hold on better. Anyway it doing that gave me some time to photograph it. It's a bit bigger that the average bumblebee and very similar in action. I've can't find anything that matches it online. The other photos are a green grasshopper, which all the others in the garden are the common brown & black ones. These no good Japanese Beatles that have been getting more numerous each year. A sleeping dragonfly in the vines and Praying Mantis

 

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[fyrffytr1]

That first one is interesting. I have never seen one before.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Aren’t green grasshoppers just ones that aren’t ripe?

 

[pepperj]

This bug in the first 3 photos is new to me. I took a hanging plant down to water and then this rather buzzing bumblebee sounding guy comes along. It hovered into the center of the flower and went at it like it was getting nectar for a moment and then it landed on the flower and started folding the flower up. I don't know if that was intentional or it did it to hold on better. Anyway it doing that gave me some time to photograph it. It's a bit bigger that the average bumblebee and very similar in action. I've can't find anything that matches it online. The other photos are a green grasshopper, which all the others in the garden are the common brown & black ones. These no good Japanese Beatles that have been getting more numerous each year. A sleeping dragonfly in the vines and Praying Mantis

Great photos and I have the answer (I hope) to your 1st interesting insect.
I found lots of time if I looked at another species and asked for an ID
"A Beetle that looks like a Bumblebee"
(I tried Moths first, but soon realized the wings were different)
Answer:
The Bumblebee Scarab Beetle is not a bee and it does not sting though it looks like a bee in every way. Just like a bee, it has hair on its abdomen, on the pronotum, and even between the eyes.

Family Glaphyridae - Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

bugguide.net

 

[tamrock]

Great photos and I have the answer (I hope) to your 1st interesting insect.
I found lots of time if I looked at another species and asked for an ID
"A Beetle that looks like a Bumblebee"
(I tried Moths first, but soon realized the wings were different)
Answer:
The Bumblebee Scarab Beetle is not a bee and it does not sting though it looks like a bee in every way. Just like a bee, it has hair on its abdomen, on the pronotum, and even between the eyes.

Family Glaphyridae - Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

bugguide.net

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Thanks pep. I was lead to that site, but I just wasn't coming up with a combo of words to best describe what I saw. Bee-Beatles. This one I saw was a pretty powerful and clever flyer over most beetles.

 

[cyzak]

It’s a Bumble flower beetle.

 

[releventchair]

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It’s a Bumble flower beetle.

Eeeek! You got it.

Bumble Flower Beetle

This page contains information on bumble flower beetles, including, hosts, biology, symptoms, and management.

extension.usu.edu

 

[tamrock]

Good job cyzak
I'm happy to find out they're beneficial to plant life as pollinators and their larva feed on decomposing roots and vegetation which promotes fertile soils.
Thanks!

 

[pepperj]

Great photos and I have the answer (I hope) to your 1st interesting insect.
I found lots of time if I looked at another species and asked for an ID
"A Beetle that looks like a Bumblebee"
(I tried Moths first, but soon realized the wings were different)
Answer:
The Bumblebee Scarab Beetle is not a bee and it does not sting though it looks like a bee in every way. Just like a bee, it has hair on its abdomen, on the pronotum, and even between the eyes.

Family Glaphyridae - Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

bugguide.net

View attachment 2104919

View attachment 2104934
It’s a Bumble flower beetle.

Eeeek! You got it.

Bumble Flower Beetle

This page contains information on bumble flower beetles, including, hosts, biology, symptoms, and management.

extension.usu.edu

Well technically if we're both right and also not exactly spot on it seems.
Not sure if it has anything to do with maturity or sex
Here is the original post up of the beetle

Here is a Bumblebee Flower Beetle
Notice the hard armour plating on the neck

Here is the actual proper name which is Euphoria Inda
Notice the hairs on the head/neck portion of the beetle.

The wonderful world of insects is quite amazing when one falls down the rabbit hole.
Here is the link that showed the difference

Bumble Flower Beetle: Identification, Life Cycle, Facts & Pictures

Know about the bumble flower beetle and their identification. Get details about their life cycle, what they eat, and habitat

beetleidentifications.com

 

[dognose]

yea that Bumblebee Flower Beetle is a new one to me.

Is that an invasive species?

 

[tamrock]

yea that Bumblebee Flower Beetle is a new one to me.

Is that an invasive species?

It doesn't appear to be.

 

[pepperj]

It doesn't appear to be.

It seems to be an asset to the gardens.
Then some bugs like the other bugs for a meal, while still eating up the garden to a certain extent.
Balance seems to the key-finding that balance is hard when one doesn't thrive in the garden because of the environment or some other factor.
I just grow extra and share it seems with all, if they don't eat it I have extra to harvest,
Some years are better, some are not it seems and some are lean with certain berries and veggies,

 

[tamrock]

It seems to be an asset to the gardens.
Then some bugs like the other bugs for a meal, while still eating up the garden to a certain extent.
Balance seems to the key-finding that balance is hard when one doesn't thrive in the garden because of the environment or some other factor.
I just grow extra and share it seems with all, if they don't eat it I have extra to harvest,
Some years are better, some are not it seems and some are lean with certain berries and veggies,

These no good Japanese beatles are doing more damage each year it seems. This one was crushed as all the others I find are, moments after this photo was taken.

 

[pepperj]

These no good Japanese beatles are doing more damage each year it seems. This one was crushed as all the others I find are, moments after this photo was taken.

The last few years they have been really bad.
Seem to come around when the Raspberries start, and they're still going.
Last year it was 600-1200 collected everyday.
Chickens loved eating them.
This year probably at the peak of the cycle 350 now it would be 50 or less.
I got rid of all the traps this year.