Beetles on Wild Lupins by durleybeachbum
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Description
Lupinus Arboreus with a Soldier Beetle, Cantharis rustica, hunting for smaller insects. Those little tiny flea beetles may be delicious!
These grow so well on Boscombe cliff, and yet every attempt I've made to cultivate them has failed.
I gave up trying years ago, my soil is too good.
Another clump
Comments (17)
CavalierLady
My goodness, it's crowded there with so many beetles! Well found and captured, and a pretty lupine, too!
Faemike55
It's the convention season Great capture
jendellas
Super capture!!
Juliette.Gribnau
wonderful !
jayfar
Quite a variety on there Andrea. Nice shot.
Hendesse
Fantastic shot. A real delight!
miwi
Super shot,klasse image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anmes
Lots of activity on the lupins! Interesting capture
dochtersions
I just love Lupines, and this is a fantastic photo with so many of them in the background. We gave up too to have them in our garden, each year the snails eat all away.
kaward
Superb shot Andrea! Some legumes have evolved to make their own nitrogen in such quantities any naturally in the soil pushes them over I suppose!
wysiwig
You can really see the fea beetles in zoom. Its like a beetle condo. A beautiful clear image of this pretty plant. Its nice to know some plants will not be tamed.
MrsRatbag
Hmm, I wonder if that's the ticket, poor soil? I keep trying, and have only just this year got mine to bloom at all, and they don't get vigorous like the wild ones at the park. But I have them in pots, maybe they'd like our ground better, as it's basically just dust that lets the water run off the top and not sink in...There's a thought. What a huge assortment of various buggy guests these have!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
moochagoo
Love your POV with the bug.
irisinthespring
Marvelous captures!
Katraz
Lots of beetle activity there and if he's looking for dinner a lot of panic too. I've noticed those wild lupins seem to like rough old rocky soil even growing at the bottom of cliffs at the seaside.
danapommet
A lovely photo - Soldier Beetle and all!