Maybe Lollipop would like a mate? Maybe Tootsie Roll? I know, pretty bad!

That little beetle is just like the one I found on my Chinese cabbage! Actually I saw two kinds, one just plain black and one striped. I couldn't get a picture cause all I had was my phone.

Oh, I see it's amaranth now. We have lots of that. And the other pointy leave thing, I think it's a weed too. I'm seeing lots of them here.

Disonycha glabrata, is the official name of the darn little beetle. I always thought amaranth was a grain crop. Is it just a weed too? I see that it is actually used as a flower. I still think the little pointy ones are butterfly weed. I am going to post this on the ID forum and see if anyone recognizes it as a flower.



I think I will do the pointy one too.

Amaranth is a grain. But it's a weed as well. I imagine if you let it grow and flower the birds will eat the seeds. They do the regular stuff I grow on purpose.

There are so many butterfly weeds it's quite possible.

That's a flea beetle? Holy cow, I always thought they were microscopic. They're not! That's the little buggar that eats my Chinese cabbage, tatsoi and bok choi!

This is not the same flea beetle that eats holes in my peppers and eggplants. Those are very small, and just plain black.

Okay, that makes more sense.