Category: Pictures

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

Small creatures from the summer garden #2: Chrysopidae on a potato plant

I was very happy to find this insect on my plants, since there larva eat aphids. There where many and now in winter I find them everywhere trying to survive until the new season starts. In the caravan, in the car, in the barn, in our shipping container, etc.