Garden Stories 6: The Little White Pointed Swordlily Sweetheart

The blue iris in our garden are now in bloom. My husband took the photo of the little white-spotted sword lily-nut (4-5 mm) in our garden the week before last. His "first name" is the small, spherical beetle belonging to the family of the trunk beetles, from the white dot on the middle, where both wing-covers collide. This beetle whole world is a sword-lily He lives almost exclusively on his preferred host plant, the yellow...