
What has boneset got that all those other, more brightly colored flowers lack? Those others may draw a random bee or two, but boneset's platters of shallow, honey-scented flowers serve as a mecca for a book full of insects. One day I'll crack that book and find out what they all are. For now, some photos.
With this first of several posts documenting the variety of life attracted to a boneset, the count for kinds of bug or beetle-like insects stands at nine.
Update, August 30, 2009: Thanks to Keith Bayless who provided latin names for most of these insects! (see comment section)
First photo: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Megacyllene robiniae (Locust Borer--indicates that black locusts grow nearby)

(Soldier Beetle)

3 Hemiptera: Rhopalidae?
(Blog host's note: initial internet search suggests something like Harmostes reflexulus)

4 Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Phymata pennsylvanica
(Pennsylvania Ambush Bug)

5 Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae: Atteva punctella
(Ailanthus webworm moth--a kind of ermine moth that uses Tree of Heaven as a host plant in its larval stage)

6 Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
(Ladybug)

Note: Red-Banded Leaf Hopper (Graphocephala coccinea)



(Note: These are referred to as Shining Flower Beetles)

(Note: a "Negro Bug")
Ok I'll help with these too.
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2 Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus
3 Hemiptera: Rhopalidae?
4 Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Phymata pennsylvanica
5 Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae: Atteva punctella
6 Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
7 Hemiptera: Cicadellidae
8 ?
9 ?
10 Coleoptera? Phalacridae?
11 Hemipera: Thyreocoridae
Thanks so much! This is a whole new world for a botanist.
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