Bulbs: fritillarias start blooming, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Yes, I understand Patti!

I have strange mixed feelings when I see it. I cannot help admiring its beauty, but really hate the damage it does to the plants it attacks, more specially its offspring that makes a kind of disgusting blackish sticky mess on the plants.
But I never managed to actually kill the beetles, I may be sentimental but I simply cannot kill any kind of culprit.

Have you ever noticed the weird sound it makes when feeling threatened, like a little shriek, quite loud for such a little thing.

Perhaps I am foolish, but the way I deal with it is taking it off the plant and deposite it in front of my house on the streetside, where I have huge climbing plants growing.

But he's not the only culprit! See the red arrows at the bottom!