Emily is a young Coleopterist that I know. Don and I try to be mentors for her, even though we are native bee people. I am using this journal entry to hold the beetles in a collection so that we can find them better.
Mostly the beetles I see in here seem to like lupine the most. The Lady Beetles are after the aphids. The others seem to hang out on the flowers. The other most used plant is the Rubber rabbitbrush, Ericamosa nauseosum.
Could this be a click beetle? On Himalayan blackberry.
Larva on cilantro.
Small, less than 1/2" long, standing on Salsify. Seems to be hinged, similar to a click beetle.
Large metallic blue-green beetles on lupine. Apprx. 1 1/4"-1 1/2" long.
Metallic blue-green beetles on lupine. I believe the pair of beetles is mating.
many small beetles on Arrowleaf Balsamroot.
Two black beetles mating, on lupine.
Beetle on lupine buds, then it walked down onto the leaf.
One more beetle, same as other two observations to give more details. Different individual on open lupine blossom.
Shaped somewhat similar to Lady beetle, but with brown, splotchy pattern. On sand cherry. probably less than 1/4" long, small anyway.
Red beetles with long serrate antenna, some small dark spots on elytra.
Larvae? Caterpillar? These things were eating what seemed to be a potato or Solanaceae species in an organic farm.
Red thorax, black elytra. Photo shows chewing damage on this buckwheat stem. Could that be from the beetle?
Striped longhorn beetle eating on buckwheat. It sometimes buried its head deep inside the flowers.
Red and black striped beetle on Lupine.
Black longhorn beetle, with hidden crab spider nearby. The beetle left and the spider did not catch anything this time.
There is a black longhorn beetle in the background of one shot for size comparison. This beetle was going up a stalk of grass, then turned around and went down. Are these antenna pectinate?
Mating beetles, stacked three high.
Beetle sitting on a stem of grass.
Smaller larvae than other ones from same day. On potato, Solanum tuberosum. Another photo showing damage by the beetle larvae.
This beetle was spotted while on a hike out in the Ancient Lakes area--in December!
Beetles that were clustered together, and clambering over one another up on a road on top of a hill above the Wenatchee River.
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