I found two very flashy bugs in the garden today tapping a rapini plant. I figured they were probably pests rather than beneficial insects since they were brazenly helping themselves to plant juice, but I thought I should try to find out some more information about them before sending out an eviction notice.
I don’t remember ever seeing this insect here before, but after finding out it is partial to mustard plants, I know why it’s here now – rapini is in the mustard family.
I also found out that the harlequin beetle is a stink bug. Eew.
