Thursday 8 April 2010

A Jewel on the Pepino

Look, what I've found on a leaf of our pepino plant!
It posed prettily and patiently (I shot tons of pictures to get a few good ones).

Ps.: I would be very interested to know what kind of bug (beetle?) this is? Does anyone know?

3 comments:

Maggie said...

Do I get a prize for naming the bug?
If so please check out the naming of the bug on Hills and Plains seedsavers.
Here http://hillsandplainsseedsavers.blogspot.com/2008/03/maggies-little-bug-gets-name.html

Veggie Gnome said...

You sure do, Maggie! What would you like? :)
Thanks for the link. It does look like a shield bug.

Raymondo said...

It looks like a juvenile of the Green Vegetable Bug, a type of shield bug. They are the bane of my life, very destructive in the veggie garden, and they love the Solanaceae.