Apricots
Will the apricots survive this year? Usually, most of them drop off before they’re fully ripe. We have a number of fruits this year, but this photograph shows a developing apricot with a small passenger.
Monday, 19 May 2025
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Great photo. some body should be able to make an identification.
ReplyDeleteHope so!
DeleteGrowing your own fruit trees is wonderful, even if some fruit fall down before they are fully ripe. If that happens, we put the underripe fruit on a windowsill, sitting behind the kitchen glass and let the sun finish its job.
ReplyDeleteBut while apples, figs, apricots, lemons and passion fruit worked well, tomatoes NEVER succeeded here :(
Everything is grown to attract pollinators - if we also get fruit, that's a bonus.
DeleteIt's certainly an apricot coloured beetle...
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right.
DeleteI hope your apricots don't fall off. Ours are just starting to develop
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to see developing fruit.
DeleteCan you capture the bug in a glass jar and take it to the local nursery? Or even take the photo and see if they can identify it and maybe tell you what to do about it. I love apricots.
ReplyDeleteIt's not easily accessible, but otherwise would have been a good idea. Apricots are my husband's favourite fruit.
DeleteI hope you have more success with your apricots this year.
ReplyDeleteNo idea about the weevil but I'm sure he's up to no good.
He's just doing what comes naturally . . . 😎
DeleteI am eminently qualified to inform you it is of the species known as bugs.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a thrip.
DeleteYou could well be right! and it's definitely a bug . . .
DeleteGood luck with the apricots.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the creepycrawlie is, but the pic is amazing!
Thank you. It's been cropped from a much larger photograph.
DeleteGood luck on your apricot. Not and entomologist but google identified it as an aphid.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Denise.
Delete“Not an entomologist “ 🙄
ReplyDelete😊
DeleteNot a clue as to what that is.
ReplyDeleteJoin the gang!
DeleteWell I can say it's a lovely picture of the apricot. I hope you get a few to eat. We got lucky with such a cold wet spring and by the way it still is, but we've not had our normal mid-may Frost and I don't think we are going to. That means I'll have apples.
ReplyDeleteYour spring seems to have been the opposite to ours. It's been extremely dry, but that's going to change in a few days' time, I hear.
DeleteThat tiny mystery guest adds a touch of intrigue—here’s hoping the apricots hang on this year, and that your rostrum-wielding conductor bug finds its spotlight elsewhere!
ReplyDeleteLet's hope so!
DeleteThat little passenger is definitely intriguing, hopefully someone can help you identify it. And that's a funny thought about orchestra conductors standing on a rostrum.
ReplyDeleteIt seems a funny name for a nose.
DeleteHopefully that critter doesn't do any damage.
ReplyDeleteIf it does, it does - we all have to live.
DeleteI love that you grow fruit mostly to attract pollinators and that if you get fruit, it is a bonus!!
ReplyDelete😎
DeleteApparently, your garden is doing well, whether or not you actually get to harvest apricots.
ReplyDeleteSomeone, or something, will benefit!
DeleteGoogle is trying to tell me it's an aphid, but to me it looks more like a flower bug. I'm not entirely sure.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's an aphid, but can't tell what it is.
DeleteI've never seen apricots in the wild 😲There's an app called iNaturalist which lets you upload photos of creepy crawlies to be identified.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that tip. I will investigate. 😎
DeleteI have installed iNaturalist - thank you for the tip!
DeleteGood luck identifying the insect.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It may forever remain anonymous.
DeleteI think that is very funny about the conductor standing on a nose/rostrum. Hope you apricots ripen for you and the little unknown bug disappears leaving your fruit intact.
ReplyDeleteWe live in hope!
DeleteThe colour is amazing xx
ReplyDelete😊
DeleteHope this one hangs on long enough to ripen.
ReplyDeleteMe, too.
DeleteYum, apricots!
ReplyDeleteThey are delicious, fresh from the tree. (I think we've had three in the years we've had the tree!)
DeleteI do hope the bug (whatever it is) doesn't do any damage.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the apricots.
All the best Jan
Thank you.
DeleteI like the thrip theory. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI love apricots, but thanks to the area's propensity for late frosts and freezes they're not often grown here.
ReplyDeleteIt's only in recent years that we've been able to grow such things as peaches and apricots. It's partly due to new strains being developed.
DeleteI sure wish apricots would grow here but they just won't. Apricots are my favorite fruit. They are seldomly in our grocery stores so I eat the dried ones.
ReplyDeleteApricots are a very healthy snack.
ReplyDeleteI haven't got a clue, but I hope it's just a harmless creature taking a breather :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteApricots don't grow where I live, which is too bad, because I like them, but only fresh (not canned). We have farms in the area which grow apples and blueberries.
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