Category: Insects

Small creatures from the summer garden #4: Gold shiny rose beetle (Cetonia aurata)

These beetles are beautiful with there shiny shield and the sound they make while they are flying is very impressive. A deep loud buzzing you hear coming from a distance. The beetles occasionally eat a flower bottom, but I would not count the rose beetle to the pests. There larva eat dead organic material and do not harm any plants.

Small creatures from the summer garden #3: Little Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)

I just love to watch these butterfly’s swirling around going from lavender flower to lavender flower even though there caterpillars eat my cabbage