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tortoise beetle

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Description:

tortoise beetles mating. If I saw these separately I would have thought they were different species, as they look nothing alike.

Habitat:

tropical forest, 1000m

Notes:

I was lucky enough to find quite a few tortoise beetles in the forest around Ginger's Paradise but I was surprised to see these two mating.

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3 Comments

Muckpuk
Muckpuk 4 years ago

Lovely moment.

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

Yes, hard to believe they belong together . . .

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Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 7 years ago

Thanks Polilla, I thought it was really interesting too.

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Dan Doucette

Municipio Samaipata, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Spotted on Jan 1, 2016
Submitted on Jul 1, 2016

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