Aulacophora Nigripennis on Bottle Gourd クロウリハムシとヘチマ

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I've been observing trees which I believe are bottle gourd for the last month to obtain evidence that they are really bottle gourd, not other gourds, such as cucumber, pumpkin or zucchini, and a few days ago, at last, I've got evidence, i.e., two bottle gourds hanging from one of the trees! And I also found this tiny but beautiful black and orange bug, Aulacophora nigripennis.

Aulacophora nigripennis on bottle gourd bud
ヘチマのつぼみとクロウリハムシ

One of the bottle gourds I found 見つけたヘチマの一つ

The other one 二本目

Bottle gourd flower へちまの花

I can't explain why but wanted badly evidence that they were really bottle gourd, but couldn't get any proof for more than a month, just finding yellow flowers, but it was worth to wait!! The 1cm bug holding on to the yellow bud was so kawaii!! 😊

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ウリ科の花は似ています。だからこの花もへちまと信じつつ、証拠をずっと探してました（つまり実がなるのを待ってました）。そして昨日やっと２本のヘチマを発見。しかもちっちゃい虫も！

クロウリハムシというそうです。害虫だそうですがしがみついている姿がカワイイ😊です。

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