Rosemary beetle on rosemary

  • Place: My garden
  • Date: 15 Oct '07
  • Camera: Canon EOS 350D
  • Lens: EF 50mm f/1.8 II
  • Aperture: f 2.0
  • Exposure: 1/1600

I’ve run out of newish photos (and yes, I know there’s a simple solution to that, but still), so here’s one from October.

This is the rosemary beetle, Chrysolina americana, which is a species native to southern Europe that is now a pest in England. They can’t fly, apparently, so they must have snook across the channel on pot plants. The little buggers nibble away at rosemary, lavender, sage and so on; you can actually see some of the damage in this shot. Pretty, though.

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