insect guide?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: insect guide?
- From: A* L*
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 07:58:11 -0700
Slightly OT, but I've seen insects in the garden this year that are
completely new & strange to me. Have actually seen less plant damage
than usual so I'm assuming that these are beneficial or at least
benign critters and would like to try to identify them. What are the
best resources you've used for insect ID (for the Midwest)? Some of
the ones I've seen include:
-- a gorgeous large bronze-gold ground beetle, an inch long and almost
as broad, slow-moving
-- a flying insect that looked waspy but without a waist, 4 pairs of
wings, actually could hear a hum from the wings, hovered in one place
like a helicopter, darted like a dragonfly, but not one
-- a green almost transparent dainty creature about 3/4 of an inch long,
enchanted with certain daylilies
-- a half-dozen unknowns going crazy over the calamintha flowers. Aside
from bumble bees and what I think are what we called bluebottles, lots
of mid, small, & tiny nectar-lovers
... and so on. I love the way these creatures are attracted to gardens -
thank goodness for my Dad, who taught me to be intrigued by insects
instead of afraid of them. They certainly add to the feeling of life in
the gardens.
Anne - Chicago
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