Colorado beetle

[Gérard-64]

39 frames stacked with Helicon.

[Planapo]

An American immigrant that is not much liked over here! Evokes some memories: As kids we had to collect the adults and reddish larvae, they then were squashed by our father with a board on the garden-path. :-&

Gérard, I hope your 'pommes de terre' are still doing fine?!

--Betty

edit: typo

[Franz Neidl]

for Planapo: The "Kartoffelkäfer" is a very famous beetle. It was connected after the worldwar II with propaganda against America. I have almost the same memories as you. Therefore it is interesting to know the real history connected with this beetle (cfr. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffelk%C3%A4fer).

for Gerard: it is an excellent photography, but I would prefer to see also the eyes of the beetle... (I think this is a part of human behavior that we always want to see also the eyes from an animal).

Franz

[Harold Gough]

(I think this is a part of human behavior that we always want to see also the eyes from an animal).

I think potato farmers would prefer to see the back of this one!

(For overseas readers: English colloquial: "to see the back of" means to get rid of, see the departure of).

Harold

[Gérard-64]

Thanks a lot.
Betty my pommes de terre are doing fine!
Franz I have tried to picture the face 3 times:Too much ligth reflexion,I gave up.
I still have a lot to learn about ligthing..

[Aynia]

I like the name Kartoffelkäfer!!

There was a poster (not sure if there still is) in the garda (police) station about the colerado beetle!!! Only in Ireland......!!!

[Harold Gough]

Yesterday we saw that this is another successive year in which potato blight infects the foliage as soon as we have summer rain. The beetle would starve here!

Our outdoor tomatoes are also infected again.

Harold.