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Caught red-handed
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:01
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The Snakeshead Fritillaries finished flowering some weeks ago, and they then set their seeds, which are held in triple-lobed pods like these, at the tips of the long slender stems:
But do you see how one of those seed-pods has been nibbled away to nothing? Lots of them are like that, and I have been wondering what is to blame. Purely by chance, I have found out. A little flash of red caught my eye…
Caught in the act! It’s a Lily Beetle, isn’t it?
It’s a shame that they are so destructive, because they are certainly good-looking.
I guess there will be rather fewer Fritillaries next year than there might have been, then.
Source: http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2014/05/caught-red-handed.html
