how about some beetles?

bower · June 8, 2019

I am not very good at identifying beetles friend or foe... Anyway, I happened to meet several beetles recently, so I took pics to sort them out. Please share your beetles, and I may learn to recognize them more easily.

The first one was in my greenhouse, where it ate large bites of my grape leaves and burdock. It seems to be a pest type, but I don't know its name. I squashed it as soon as the pic was taken.

bower · June 8, 2019

I had better luck with this second beetle, I found in one of my containers that was outdoors over the winter. Really a pretty creature, and I did let it go just in case it was a friend... as it turned out to be. They are large beetles and prey on slugs and wireworms among other things.

Bronze Ground Beetle, aka Bronze Carabid, aka European Ground Beetle: Carabus nemoralis, according to this:
http://www.ukwildlife.net/beetles/ca.../carabidae.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabus_nemoralis

We need more of these.

Worth1 · June 8, 2019

Looks almost like the Dreaded Colorado Potato Beetle in the first pictuer.

AlittleSalt · June 8, 2019

Worldwide, there are over 40,000 varieties of beetles. So I narrowed my search down to 'newfoundland ground beetle identification' https://www.google.com/search?q=newf...w=1152&bih=605

A lot of ground beetles eat seeds and small insects, but not all are good or bad. I did see some pictures that look a lot like the first picture, but all it said was 'ground beetle'.

Yesterday we saw an Iron Clad beetle on a tree. They are very cool looking. This is an Internet picture of one.

bower · June 8, 2019

That Iron Clad beetle does look amazing!

Thanks to you Worth I went looking for beetle pest families, and now I think that plant munching beast in the first pic is a type of weevil. They have the snout and they have the elbowed antenna (looks like an M in the pic because they're folded). Root weevil, vine weevil?? Not sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otiorhynchus_meridionalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_weevil

Weevil evil.

Maybe resident evil, in the greenhouse...

@ Salt, the ground beetles are beneficials in the garden - pest eaters.

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Looks almost like the Dreaded Colorado Potato Beetle in the first pictuer.

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bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	That Iron Clad beetle does look amazing! Thanks to you Worth I went looking for beetle pest families, and now I think that plant munching beast in the first pic is a type of weevil. They have the snout and they have the elbowed antenna (looks like an M in the pic because they're folded). Root weevil, vine weevil?? Not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otiorhynchus_meridionalis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_weevil Weevil evil. Maybe resident evil, in the greenhouse... @ Salt, the ground beetles are beneficials in the garden - pest eaters.