Today I saw a "new-to-me" bug... larvae of the Colorado Potato Beetle. They were feasting on the Purple Viking potato plants. The first one I saw was small, and at first I thought it might be a different kind of lady bug beetle. But then I saw more, bigger and juicier specimans!
I picked all I could see off the plants and fed them to the chickens, although they didn't seem to be too interested. Maybe the potato bugs are toxic, since they feed on plants of the nightshade family.
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