Small brown beetles all over the garden?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2023 edited May 2023

  Looks a bit like a woodworm beetle to me … 
  … but there’s loads of beetles around and the photo  is a bit
  indistinct. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  May 2023

  flowerlover2 said:

  Thanks, Palistris, does it mean they are harmless?

  No, it just means that they are not weevils. There are plenty of harmful beetles around!
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2023

  Palustris said:

  flowerlover2 said:

  Thanks, Palistris, does it mean they are harmless?

  No, it just means that they are not weevils. There are plenty of harmful beetles around!
  
  

  What is thedefinition of a harmful beetle? There  thatare just going about their business playing their part in the ecology of our planet … they may eat a bit of our plants … but they provide the  birds with food. 
  
  

  
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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  May 2023 edited May 2023

  "harmful" as in woodworm, death watch beetle or even flea beetle where the numbers are so great that they decimate crops.
  

  Perhaps a better prhase would have been "less welcome".
  

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