Welcome to this weeks theme: Macro images! Today I am starting with the scourge of many a garden – the Japanese beetle. Beautiful green color but the damage I’ve seen them do to rose bushes is just horrible. Hope your garden is spared.
F 8.0 – 1/80 – ISO 250 – 100mm – cloudy WB
Images by T.Dashfield Photography 
Neat shot. And yes they are pretty as bugs go…but they sure do cause havoc in the garden!
I actually flicked a few of them off with my fingers when I wanted to get a bug free shot. Ick!
It’s a very pretty bug. I haven’t seen them in my garden.
Then that is a very good thing!
Great Photo
Thank you.
Rose killers….
Exactly!!!!
I can’t believe how you managed to make one of my nemeses’ look so beautiful. The J Beetle is the reason I no longer grow roses. Auuurggh!
They chomped through a garden I had in another life but fortunately the roses survived.
Very nice shot! Bugs can be beautiful in their own light, but sure can wreak havoc in gardens and fields.
And I found one of these little *&^% on my sunflowers today!