A few years back when I had just begun using a sweepnet I collected a good many flea beetles from giant bermuda grass. I didn't have the camera/lens system then that I do now. I don't think I posted any of those images. However, I seem to recall someone along the way telling me that Alticini do not live on grasses. I had been weeding a gravel bed Sept. 9, seeing a lot of tiny jumping bugs and, I thought, a few flea beetles. I wondered if, in my early neophyte days, I might have mistaken the bugs for beetles and decided to see what I could collect in my sweepnet.

I found a few unmowed patches of Bermuda grass with seedheads where I collected an assortment of the tiny jumping bugs, a number of mites, and this lone flea beetle, which, for all I know, fell out of a tree onto the grass a moment earlier.