![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/16t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on masses of flowers of yankeeweed (Eupatorium compositifolium) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 29, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/643/jpeg/09t.jpg) Twelve-spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on zinnia flower in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, May 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/736/jpeg/02t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on yellow bracted strawflower in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/717/jpeg/14t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on a shoot of prickly pears cactus in Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. Austin, Texas, March 7, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/896/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetles (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, November 7, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/896/jpeg/25t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetles (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on Mexican Sunflower in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, November 14, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/676/jpeg/18t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/638/jpeg/14t.jpg) Six-spotted flower longhorned beetle (Strangalia sexnotata(?)) on a yellow daisy in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 30, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/01t.jpg) Green lynx spider on a yellow flower of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1109/jpeg/12t.jpg) Corn beetle eating yellow aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/887/jpeg/16t.jpg) Banded cucumber beetle (Diabrotica balteata) in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, August 16, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/650/jpeg/25t.jpg) Green lynx spider on a yellow aster-like flower near Deer Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 8, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/640/jpeg/01t.jpg) Green plant bugs (Miridae) and tumbling flower beetle on a yellow daisy in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 5, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/628/jpeg/12t.jpg) 4-spotted checkered beetle (Pelonides quadripunctatus) on Pyracantha (rose family) flowers in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, April 5, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2700/jpeg/19t.jpg) Flower head of a plant of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/671/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family Viguiera cordifolia(?) on roadside of Road 364, near Sugarloaf Mountain. Gause, Texas, September 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/893/jpeg/17t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 2, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/671/jpeg/14t.jpg) Small yellow flower of aster family with downcurved rays on roadside of Road 364, near Sugarloaf Mountain. Gause, Texas, September 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2301/jpeg/12t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, July 4, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/652/jpeg/10t.jpg) Longhorned beetle (Strangalia) on yellow daisy in Lick Creek park, on Deer Run Trail. College Station, June 15, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/863/jpeg/20t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, May 25, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/653/jpeg/05t.jpg) Yellow-marked Buprestid beetle (Acmaeodera) on sleepy-daisy in Lick Creek Park, on Post Oak Trail. College Station, Texas, June 21, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2707/jpeg/08t.jpg) Spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata) with a beetle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 15, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/862/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) flower in dew on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/682/jpeg/11t.jpg) Inflorescence of white aster on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 29, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/664/jpeg/09t.jpg) Yellow aster family flowers in Sam Houston National Forest, on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail. Richards, Texas, August 10, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/857/jpeg/25t.jpg) Cucumber beetle on a corn flower (Centaurea) in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, May 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/10t.jpg) Flower longhorned beetle Strange Virile Bycid (Strangalia virilis) mimicking as a wasp on a thistle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 13, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2477/jpeg/18t.jpg) Flower of yellow thistle (Bull thistle, Cirsium horridulum) with a bronze beetle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3351/jpeg/21t.jpg) Rosette of a plant of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3050/jpeg/18t.jpg) Caps of yellow spotted amanita mushrooms (Amanita flavoconia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3050/jpeg/17t.jpg) Underside of yellow spotted amanita mushrooms (Amanita flavoconia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3252/jpeg/30t.jpg) Seed head of a plant of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3387/jpeg/06t.jpg) Seed heads of a plant with narrow leaves of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 17, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3001/jpeg/05t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/16t.jpg) Yellow flower of pea family in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, July 14, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2246/jpeg/14t.jpg) Dissected malformed yellow flower of aster family on north shore of Lake Somerville near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 15, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2246/jpeg/13t.jpg) Malformed yellow flower of aster family because of parasites on north shore of Lake Somerville near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 15, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/634/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow daisy flower in dew near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/639/jpeg/05t.jpg) Yellow flower of Rosemary frostweed (Sun rose, Helianthemum rosmarinifolium) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/623/jpeg/03t.jpg) Flower of yellow star-grass (Hypoxis hirsuta) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2420/jpeg/19t.jpg) Tiny yellow flower of aster family on pink granite in Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. Fredericksburg, Texas, December 25, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3043/jpeg/09t.jpg) Yellow flowers of aster family in a burned forest in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2367/jpeg/26t.jpg) Yellow flowers of aster family in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, September 26, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1622/jpeg/11t.jpg) Flower buds of yellow flowers of aster family in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 16, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/718/jpeg/16t.jpg) Emerald flower scarab beetle (Metallic green flower scarab, Trichiotinus lunulatus(?)) on a flower of dewberry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/659/jpeg/24t.jpg) Small yellow flower of pea family (Pencil flower, Stylosanthes biflora) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, July 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2568/jpeg/05t.jpg) Some small yellow flower of aster family on Moore s Hill Outcrop at FM Road 3090 2 miles north-east from Navasota. Texas, September 22, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/625/jpeg/25t.jpg) Flower of yellow star-grass (Hypoxis hirsuta) in Lick Creek Park, on Post Oak Trail. College Station, Texas, March 31, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/623/jpeg/01t.jpg) Yellow star-grass flower (woolly stargrass, Hypoxis hirsuta) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2700/jpeg/16t.jpg) Coreopsis with a flower beetle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/676/jpeg/16t.jpg) Yellow fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/637/jpeg/19t.jpg) Tumbling flower beetle and a snout beetle (white-scaled flower weevil, Odontocorynus denticornis) on a black-eyes susan flower in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, April 27, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1632/jpeg/09t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family Senecio pseudoarnica (seaside ragwort)(?) in rock garden in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/05t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 13, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/744/jpeg/24t.jpg) Emerald flower scarab beetle (Metallic green flower scarab, Trichiotinus lunulatus) on false dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 7, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2182/jpeg/11t.jpg) Orange flower of aster family in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/899/jpeg/22t.jpg) Receptacle of a flower of aster family in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, December 13, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/855/jpeg/18t.jpg) Brown flower of aster family in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/857/jpeg/24t.jpg) Big orange and brown flower of aster family in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, May 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/06t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) with a stilt bug (Jalysus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 13, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/859/jpeg/09t.jpg) Jewel beetle (Buprestidae) on a flower of false dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/21t.jpg) Green lynx spider eating a flower beetle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 6, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/748/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sand chafer beetle (Strigoderma arbicola) on false dandelion flower in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 15, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2485/jpeg/28t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of a plant of aster family in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 24, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/686/jpeg/10t.jpg) Receptacle, achene and bracts of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/02t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) flower and receptacle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2261/jpeg/20t.jpg) Basket flower (Plectocephalus americanus) with a beetle on Butterfly Alley (a recent cutting) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 17, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/623/jpeg/08t.jpg) Flowers of yellow star-grass (woolly stargrass, Hypoxis hirsuta) in Lick Creek Park, with flattened star-like flower and hairs on grasslike linear leaves. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/10t.jpg) Grasshopper on a dry stalk of soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 24, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/626/jpeg/03t.jpg) Yellow panicle of false indigo (bush pea, yellow wisteria, Baptisia bracteata) in Lick Creek Park, on Post Oak Trail. College Station, Texas, March 31, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1452/jpeg/26t.jpg) Delta flower scarab beetle (Trigonopeltastes delta) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/680/jpeg/04t.jpg) Silky flower heads of fragrant cudweed (sweet everlasting, Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium) on Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/686/jpeg/12t.jpg) Stink bug nymph (Thyanta) on a dry receptacle of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Heterotheca, Chrysopis) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3258/jpeg/07t.jpg) Seeds of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1864/jpeg/25t.jpg) Flower bud of an orange flower of aster family in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 26, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/887/jpeg/18t.jpg) Closed flower and a seed head of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Heterotheca, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3258/jpeg/03t.jpg) Seed heads of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/20t.jpg) Stink bug nymph on a seed head of soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 29, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1157/jpeg/09t.jpg) Spotted Flower Beetle (Stephanorrhina guttata) in Zoological Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 15, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/15t.jpg) Ironclad beetle (Zopherus haldemani(?)) at sunrise on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/02t.jpg) Red and black striped caterpillar on soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1157/jpeg/07t.jpg) Blue Spotted Flower Beetle (Stephanorrhina guttata) in Zoological Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 15, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1624/jpeg/06t.jpg) Flower bud of an orange flower of aster family Senecio pseudoarnica (seaside ragwort)(?) in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 16, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3634/jpeg/03t.jpg) Blooming aster (Symphyotrichum) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/14t.jpg) Ironclad beetle (Zopherus haldemani(?)) found under tree bark on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2466/jpeg/24t.jpg) Yellow flowers of aster family on Lost Pines Trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 14, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1425/jpeg/07t.jpg) Yellow flowers of aster family east from Kuzmolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1081/jpeg/20t.jpg) Yellow flowers of aster family on roadside west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 20, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3000/jpeg/13t.jpg) Beetle of yellow petals of sunflower (Helianthus) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 5, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2470/jpeg/05t.jpg) Flower bud of aster family in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, March 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2455/jpeg/06t.jpg) Red flower of aster family in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, February 27, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/677/jpeg/25t.jpg) Wasp on a yellow flower of candle bush (Cassia alata) in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, October 10, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/681/jpeg/20t.jpg) Texas aster (Aster texanus) near a pond of Upper falls in McKinney Falls State Park. Austin, Texas, October 26, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/681/jpeg/17t.jpg) Dwarf yellow butterfly (Dainty Sulphur, Nathalis iole) on Texas aster near a pond of Upper falls in McKinney Falls State Park. Austin, Texas, October 26, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/639/jpeg/08t.jpg) Coreopsis flower in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3634/jpeg/01t.jpg) Flowers of roadside aster (Aster exilis) from a lawn of apartments at George Bush Drive. College Station, Texas, October 21, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3138/jpeg/08t.jpg) Flower spike of spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata) in Bee Creek Park College Station, Texas, April 25, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/648/jpeg/24t.jpg) Yellow puff (Neptunia lutea) in Lick Creek Park, on Post Oak Trail. College Station, Texas, May 31, 2008
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