Nikas Culinaria

That, ladies and gentlemen, is not an ancient Egyptian scarab, who they diefied as “Khepri (”he who has come into being”), the god of the rising sun. The ancient Egyptians believed that Khepri renewed the sun every day before rolling it above the horizon, then carried it through the other world after sunset, only to renew it, again, the next day.” (Source)

Sure, he looks beautiful, almost as if he were a cloisonné broach. Look at those fantastic little hairy tufts along his back bottom area. Look how a tiny droplet of water sits on his surreal pink carapace.

In his case, he is beauty AND the beast.

Not a noble golden scarab, that is a Japanese beetle that decided to eat some of my juvenile kohlrabi plants. For this crime, he has met with a dark moment that I manufactured with a sharp stick.

No one messes with my baby kohlrabi.

You can see him and other horticultural wonders and freakshows over at our companion gardening blog Humble Garden.

Not all is so destructive in the garden. We have cucumbers and squash exploding into a profusion of almost alien-like vines with delicate grasping tendrils that explore their new world.

Come on over to Humble Garden, sit a spell, maybe share your garden with us.