Solanum campylacanthum subsp. panduriforme entertaining

Flowers appreciate visitors that touch, not those that consume them entirely. Solanum campylacanthum subsp. panduriforme flowers receive some smartly attired visitors with photogenic attributes.

This pretty one may be a kind of blister beetle of the Meloidae family. These beetles are capable of a defensive secretion, a blistering agent known as cantharidin. There are about 7500 species of blister beetles on earth, if some haven’t been lost in the biodiversity reduction usually blamed on human living habits.

Evolutionary species increases are hopefully not yet fully offset by species losses through climate change, insecticides or whatever else has been invented to make people more comfortable.

Whatever people believe their duties may be regarding ruling over them all, or simply coexisting with them, no known religion commands their extermination (Pooley, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; iSpot; Wikipedia).