Urban Nature on Boston's Riverway

[urbpan]

cottonmanifesto photographing a beetle on the dodder. Her picture is here.


A Japanese beetle feeding on Japanese knotweed. That's about right.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

interesting - your doddy seems a lot less tangly than the species we get over here.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

er, dodder

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You must have thorny venomous dodder in Australia, in which hides redback spiders and brown snakes.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

*grins* no, just a bright orange-green species that turns the roadside trees into masses of spaghetti in red sauce :)


might disguise dropbears tho

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Cute beetle! :)