Chinese Cucumber & Pumpkin Beetle 黄烏瓜と黒瓜葉虫

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

I gave up on seeing them this year because they were completely removed this spring and didn't flower in June, i.e., the month in which I saw the flowers last year and the year before, but voila! They're flowers of Trichosanthes kirilowii (Chinese cucumber). And that's not it. I found pumpkin beetles (Aulacophora nigripennis) on them, too. I love these "hairy" Chinese cucumber flowers and tiny, colorful beetles! 

A pumpkin beetle holding on to Chinese cucumber flowers
黄烏瓜の花にしがみつく黒瓜葉虫

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いつもなら6月に咲いていたので、今年はもうあきらめてたんです。そしたら今朝発見！黄烏瓜（キガラスウリ）の花です！しかも黒瓜葉虫（クロウリハムシ）も一緒。このもじゃもじゃのキガラスウリと色鮮やかな小っちゃい黒瓜葉虫、大好きです。

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