Colorado Insects of Interest Fact Sheet (pdf) Photograph courtesy of Joseph Berger: Checkered Melon Beetle Paranapiacaba tricincta (Say) BUMBLE FLOWER BEETLE Victor Trapp. Loading... Unsubscribe from Victor Trapp? Bumble flower beetles have been noticed in several areas of northern and central Illinois swarming low to the ground. Dear Ab, We identified your Bumblebee Flower Beetle, Euphoria inda, in Beetles of North America by Arthur V. Evans where we learned “Adults often fly close to the ground, especially over piles of grass, edges of haystacks, compost piles, manure, and other plant debris. How it actually works remains a mystery, but if replicated by humans, it could be a boon for agriculture. Their larvae look like the white grubs found in turf but feed on rotting wood, manure, mulch, compost, and … Bumble Flower Beetle Adults of the bumble flower beetle (Euphoria inda) are fairly large, slightly hairy beetles that are present in mid to late-summer. Fashion embellished with jewel beetle wings - Duration: 2:47.
Bumble Flower Beetles Bumble flower stinging insecttles are oval in shape and range in size from 12-15 mm in length. It’s believed that they take advantage of already-existing cracks and splits in fruits and of damage done by other insects and that they don’t spread plant diseases while feeding.
Victoria and Albert Museum Recommended for you. They are scavengers, most often observed at flowers (e.g., daylilies, large thistles) or visiting fermenting fruit. This beetle gets its name from its lumbering, noisy flight. Look again. Low over the scrub of the Rainshadow Desert, the bulbous shape of this insect can be seen on flashing winds, roughly the size of a sparrow.
Blister beetles do damage to both garden and commercial plants, consuming a variety of leaf crops, plant blossoms, landscape flowers and hay crops. Think it's a bumble bee flying low? As an adult, it's a minor pest in Wyoming, often feeding off the sap of poplar wounds or injured fruit. No sooner does one appear than it vanishes again. They drink sap from the wounds on tree trunks and exposed roots, or feed on various flowers and ripe fruits. Bumble flower beetles are scarab beetles in the genus Euphoria. Hi Martha, This Scarab is a Bumble Flower Beetle, Euphoria inda, and according to BugGuide: “Adults visit flowers for pollen and/or nectar.Sometimes damage flowers. The bumblebeetle is a large beetle with a peculiar lifecycle that inhabits the southeastern Rainshadow Desert of Novopangea, 200 million AD, in the documentary The Future is Wild. Also takes rotting fruit, corn, sap, other plant juices.” BugGuide also states: “Larvae usually reported to live in decaying wood, vegetation, and especially, dung (6). Bumble flower beetles can be found in grasslands and gardens across the continent, feeding on fermenting sap, ripe/rotting fruit, flowers, pollen and nectar. In hemp they have been observed to visit frothy ooze resulting from bacterial Eggs deposited in summer near these food sources. The bumble flower beetles are attracted to sweet or fermenting liquids and ripening crops. Bumble Flower Beetles Euphoria inda (L.) Colorado Insects of Interest Fact Sheet (pdf) Photograph courtesy of Whitney Cranshaw: Burying Beetle Nicrophorus spp. Although these beetles often get blamed for damage to tomatoes and apples, they are only feeding on produce that was already damaged. Bumble flower beetles show up during the end of the garden season when produce is already ripe. Bumble Flower Beetle. Yellowish-brown to a dark reddish brown in color, dark spots pattern their bodies which are also covered with yellowish-brown hairs.