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Have you ever seen something like this, flower with holes?
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Have you ever seen something like this, flower with holes?


All the flowers i checked in this plant had this hole on the bottom, im pretty sure this was made by some insect, cause i also saw some bees drinking the nectar through this holes. But this will be made by bees or other insects
Have tou ever seen this in other flowers?
Genus: thunbergia (indentified by Inaturalist IA)

by JacareDesertor

3 Comments

  1. hellraiserl33t

    The term is called nectar robbing, lots of bees do it. Seen on many of my flowers 🙂

  2. Amorpha_fruticosa

    I’m not sure your location, but at my home in the eastern U.S. we have carpenter bees that cut holes in the sides of tubular flower (like Lonicera semperviriens), it is known as nectar robbing.

  3. Grambo-47

    I saw that on one of my geraniums the other day. I looked a little closer and saw a little green caterpillar going to town. I’m pretty sure it was a Cabbage White Butterfly caterpillar, super invasive here in the PNW, promptly got removed and stomped. It sucks having to end a life like that, but for the good of the ecosystem, invasives need to be humanely removed.

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