This is about as good as it gets with insect pests: neatly nibbling interesting designs on an unwanted plant.
UPDATE: Thanks to Mary Schier's most recent post, I've learned that these leaves were cut by leafcutter bees. That should be easy to remember.
Here are a couple more articles about leafcutter bees: one written by an entomologist and one with some great photos.
3 comments:
Oh, that is nice! Mine don't do nearly as well!
Oh! That is so neat looking!
I have been pulling weeds all day and it would be a much more enjoyable task if they looked like this one...
Thanks, Peter ! I have a couple serviceberries in my little "nursery" bed that have very similar chomp marks and I had no idea. Now I do ! Cool ! I love to feed a diverse & motley crew of insects.
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