<![CDATA[Lupine with bumblebee]]>Lupine with bumblebee

And mites? A bunch of somethings, small and pale (greenish) higher up on the lupine?

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/6c08258a-4984-41ca-a185-8d86dad81264/lupine-with-bumblebeeRSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 06:31:14 GMTMon, 18 May 2026 01:54:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Lupine with bumblebee on Mon, 18 May 2026 05:19:58 GMT]]>@sollat hmm.. I wonder about the pH as well.

Wish you good luck!

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Omg of course they have their own bug! First the currant cutworms and now lupine aphids. I feel like I’m in a non consensual etymology class.

Looks like I’ll be spraying some neem. Thanks for the identification!

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It’s somewhere between pink and purple. I wonder if it’s a pH thing like hydrangeas. I have had terrible luck with them but two are on their third year now. Hopefully the aphids won’t end the streak!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/sollat/statuses/116593762621072252https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/sollat/statuses/116593762621072252Mon, 18 May 2026 04:47:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lupine with bumblebee on Mon, 18 May 2026 03:21:01 GMT]]>@sollat I've seen those bugs but I don't recall what they are 🤔

Also.. you have pink lupinus!? I'm envious!

I've only got purple lupinus.
Two years ago I collected seeds from my favorite pink lupinus, which grows in a vacant plot nearby. I saved them, stratified them, grew baby plants last year. This year they finally produced flowers... and they are purple 😅🙃

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/marsiposa/statuses/116593423917859464https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/marsiposa/statuses/116593423917859464Mon, 18 May 2026 03:21:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lupine with bumblebee on Mon, 18 May 2026 03:08:18 GMT]]>@sollat That's a pretty cool looking bug. I'm not sure what it is though.

I will keep my eyes opened for them here.

We have both perennial and annual lupines. So maybe we will get hit by something similar.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116264672619630838/statuses/116593373874855677https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116264672619630838/statuses/116593373874855677Mon, 18 May 2026 03:08:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Lupine with bumblebee on Mon, 18 May 2026 02:53:58 GMT]]>@sollat They look like lupine aphids to me. Not an entomologist, but we had a lot of them locally one year that affected big swaths of lupine. They seemed to recover fine the next year or so. Generally they don’t do that much damage.

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