The yuccas in a field near the Nashua Airport have begun blooming and the yucca beetles (family Nitidulidae - Sap Beetles) and yucca moths are right on top of the situation. You can see both inside this yucca bloom. The beetle in sunlight is the male of a mating pair.

During my time near a couple yucca plants I observed mating pairs and single beetles cruising up and down and over the stalks and pods as well as inside almost every bloom. An army of a*nts had some business patrolling the pods and would investigate but never attack any yucca beetle that interrupted their rounds. Now and then a blossom would drop to the ground and some (at least) of the beetles inside would exit and climb/fly to a yucca stalk, although not always by a direct route. Several landed on me.

At one point, after I had been holding a stalk to steady it in the breeze for some images that turned out poorly anyway, I noticed something was biting the back of my hand. "Aha!" I thought, "An a*nt has climbed onto me and decided to enforce the no tresspassing law." But when I finally glanced at my wrist I was amazed to see not and a*nt but a yucca beetle giving me the dickens. Following are some shots of this toothy little devil.