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Metallic blue tortoise beetle

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59 Comments (1–25)

Anne Marie McCaffrey
Anne Marie McCaffrey 10 years ago

A real beauty!

Piali Bopanna
Piali Bopanna 11 years ago

Exquisite!

LisaPowers
LisaPowers 11 years ago

Simply stunning!

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

Lovely! I can't believe I missed this spotting of the day! Congratulations!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Mayra, Daniela, Maria, Gerardo, Toshimi, Leuba, thank you very much.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

amazing !

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

Very cool, Sergio! Congratulations - what will you delight us with next?

ToshimiDowaki
ToshimiDowaki 11 years ago

Wonderful spotting for SOTD!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Congratulations my friend fantastic photos :)

DB
DB 11 years ago

Congratulations on your SotD Sérgio! Beautiful beetle & series...

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow Sergio, muito linda!!!!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Carol Milne, KarenL, Adarsha B S, Lauren Zarate, Yuko Chartraw, Alice Long Martin, Rieko S, Leanne Gardner, Patty, Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman, Yasser, Fyn Kynd, Keith Roragen, Gerardo Aizpuru, Luis Stevens, António Ginja , Braulio Alejandro Rivas Tapia, Ashley T, Atul, Yuriana Martínez, Nuwan Chathuranga, Martin L, Sachin Zaveri, Jill Black, Argy Bee, Env Unlimited, Explorer 1, Leana Lahom-Cristobal, Larry Graziano, Scott Frazier, Oneng Dyah, Phil S, Amazon Workshops, Reza Hashemizadeh, Toucan, Debbie Stewart and all that favorited this spotting, thank you very much for the kind comments and the wonderful support. Believe me, I am really touched. I hope that I can bring you more beauties in the future.

Debbie Stewart
Debbie Stewart 11 years ago

Hooray...My favourite beetle from Sergio got SOTD most deserved Sergio Congratulations

Toucan
Toucan 11 years ago

Magnificent spot! Congratulations, Sergio!

Fyn  Kynd
Fyn Kynd 11 years ago

Awesome spot! Congrats!

Reza Hashemizadeh
Reza Hashemizadeh 11 years ago

Congratulation Sergio, this Gem is truly worthy of an SotD !

AmazonWorkshops
AmazonWorkshops 11 years ago

Congratulations Sergio! This is one beautiful beetle!

Phil_S
Phil_S 11 years ago

Congrats on the SOTD! Awesome spotting!

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 11 years ago

Very pretty...great pic..

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

A blue beauty! Congratulations Sergio!

Sérgio my friend,amazing,another paradise creature,congrats on one more well deserved SOTD, super find,thanks for sharing such a wonderful world

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

Great color, great spotting of the day Sergio! Well deserved! You can add this to the mission "the color blue" if you'd like!

Congratulations Sergio on this another great spotting and SOTD!

Another great spot and photo Sergio!

Explorer 1
Explorer 1 11 years ago

Wow! That is the best spotting ever

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Spotted on Jan 29, 2013
Submitted on Jan 29, 2013

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