how about some beetles?
 

I am not very good at identifying beetles friend or foe... Anyway, I happened to meet several beetles recently, so I took pics to sort them out. Please share your beetles, and I may learn to recognize them more easily.


The first one was in my greenhouse, where it ate large bites of my grape leaves and burdock. It seems to be a pest type, but I don't know its name. I squashed it as soon as the pic was taken.

I had better luck with this second beetle, I found in one of my containers that was outdoors over the winter. Really a pretty creature, and I did let it go just in case it was a friend... as it turned out to be. They are large beetles and prey on slugs and wireworms among other things. :dance:

Bronze Ground Beetle, aka Bronze Carabid, aka European Ground Beetle: Carabus nemoralis, according to this:
[url]http://www.ukwildlife.net/beetles/carabidae/carabidae.htm[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabus_nemoralis[/url]

We need more of these. :D

Looks almost like the [SIZE=4][COLOR=DarkRed]Dreaded Colorado Potato Beetle[/COLOR][/SIZE] in the first pictuer.

Worldwide, there are over 40,000 varieties of beetles. So I narrowed my search down to 'newfoundland ground beetle identification' [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=newfoundland+ground+beetle+identification&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs4bn739riAhXDUt8KHUxnAXEQsAR6BAgAEAE&biw=1152&bih=605[/URL]

A lot of ground beetles eat seeds and small insects, but not all are good or bad. I did see some pictures that look a lot like the first picture, but all it said was 'ground beetle'.

Yesterday we saw an Iron Clad beetle on a tree. They are very cool looking. This is an Internet picture of one.

That Iron Clad beetle does look amazing! :cute:
Thanks to you Worth I went looking for beetle pest families, and now I think that plant munching beast in the first pic is a type of weevil. They have the snout and they have the elbowed antenna (looks like an M in the pic because they're folded). Root weevil, vine weevil?? Not sure. :?!?:
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otiorhynchus_meridionalis[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_weevil[/url]


Weevil evil. :P Maybe resident evil, in the greenhouse...:(

@ Salt, the ground beetles are beneficials in the garden - pest eaters. :yes: