7-26 Sunflower Tortoise Beetle, Coralroot

7-26 Sunflower Tortoise Beetles are skeletonizing sunflower leaves. The beetle begins life dingy white, turns black and white for about 3 weeks and at maturity is a brilliant metallic green!

The woodland orchid called Large Coralroot, once thought to be a saprophyte and now known to be mycoheterotropic, is in flower. They are connected to and take nutrients from a fungal network. John