Bugs

Hello chums.

Any idea what these are? Some of my flowers and a couple of veg/fruit plants are infested. Sorry for the slightly fuzzy pic, but it was a bit tricky to get a decent close-up. They are around 2mm......

 

How be on Freddy

Could be Flea Beetles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_beetle

 

Hiya Zigs.

Yeah, could be those. I've noticed that some have a green tinge (within black) and others have a blue tinge (within black). A pest you think?

 

Don't look like they've had it away with the entire Sunflower yet.

 

Yeah, but I have a white Dahlia that is ruined....presumably these are the cause?

 

Just to clarify, the white flower has loads of brown patches

 

Looks like the mini black beetles that can infest flowers, especially sweet peas, during hot, dry summer weather.

 

Hiya Scrungee

Are they bad news you think?

 

Pollen beetle I bet.
They live on ,......errrr pollen.

The white Dalia, was probably ruined by earwigs.

 

Only if you bring loadsa bunches of flowers indoors that are infested with them.

P.S. From memory I thought they were only about 1mm, but they certainly got prolific around this time of year causing us to abandon picking sweet peas and leave them for seed saving.

 

Hiya folks, thanks for the input. They are indeed Pollen Beetles, relatively harmless