Beetle on Deptford Pink
Dianthus armeria
Deptford Pink · Arverne Preserve · 20 June 2026
A beetle climbing past a Deptford Pink in the dry ground at Arverne. The pink is a small, wiry, short-lived wildflower naturalised from Europe and now a familiar sight in dry, disturbed ground along the coast; the tiny white-spotted magenta flowers rarely open more than one or two at a time on a plant.
The beetle, reddish head and pronotum against darker wing covers, has the general build of a soldier beetle, but there was not a clear enough look to call the species. The flower is named for Deptford, on the Thames, where it grew in the meadows before London swallowed them.
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