BEETLES! (graphic warning, especially for hyphenate)

[Kali]

haven't seen a swarm like this in years - had a good long soaking rain yesterday (finally) and a half inch on Monday (or was it Sunday? I'm too tired to remember) and the whole universe is erupting with plant and animal life around here!

kept hearing things banging on the screen door, went out and saw these guys all over the plants under the light by the front door. Got a big jar full to save for the chickens tomorrow, because I bet they will mostly be gone by morning - at least I hope so, jeebus!









and with that I bid you all good night, sleep tight, don't let the gold bugs bite (they don't) hee hee

[some guy]

1. congrats on the rain.

eeewww on the beetles. I hope the chickens find them more appealing than I do.

[freshwest]

2. We called those 'June bugs' when I was growing up. As in 'Dumb as a June bug.'

They seem to love screen doors and porch lights above all other things. Nice food for the birds though, dogs, cats, etc. Good eating. Glad you got the rain at last. Looks nice and green there.

[Kali]

10. see I grew up calling the big iridescent green ones June bugs

these yellow gold ones I know are more commonly called that and I don't remember ever seeing so many. We have another smaller and more bronze gold beetle that I do remember swarming and those are sctually what we used to call gold bugs.

these are "those bigger yellow gold bugs"

like the scientific nomenclature?:rofl:

oh, and they all come out in July

[denbot]

3. My kids would freak seeing that many beetles on the porch..

A junebug got in the den and I had to catch and release before the kids would come back in to the room.
:crazy:

[Kali]

11. the big green ones are big enough to tie a light string to and make them fly in circles

I can remember doing that as a kid - and trying to get them in each others' hair

[WillParkinson]

4. Tell your June Bugs...

They're late. Must be women. ;)

Of course they could also be men who refused to ask for directions. :rofl:

[warrior1]

5. ahhhhhhh

June bugs. They use to fall on us in summer time when we lived in Texas. Oh the humanity.

[freshwest]

8. Yes, the poor helpless, hapless, aerodynamically challenged volkswagens that they were.

[hifiguy]

6. Clearly you need some ducks to help you out

as in "like a duck on a june bug."

[libodem]

7. Kind of pretty

Being gold and all. Ari is that you?

[geardaddy]

9. Those look cool.

These little fuckers on the other hand suck:

These are not your friendly lady bugs, but an invasive species.

[freshwest]

16. Yeah, that was what I was thinking. Not good.

[Ptah]

12. It happens on Kitt Peak too:

[Kali]

13. I've seen those up on Mt Lemmon too.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

14. Good gawd ...

Looks like a new Hitchcock flick ... "The Bugs"

[woo me with science]

15. Very cool pictures, those and the ladybugs.

At our old house, we had these:

Box Elder Bugs

[freshwest]

17. Perhaps someone has a picture of cicadas. Always kinda... freaked me out. They're noisy, too.

[ccharles000]

18. eww bugs