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This looks like Chrysolina, a highly metallic and rotund leaf beetle
Feeding on Bursaria spinosa in a nature reserve along the yarra.
Chrysolina is exotic for most species but I think this is native as it feeds on Bursaria. Chrysolina was introduced to control St Johns Wort (weed) but that is a different species http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/237...
Spotted on Aug 22, 2014
Submitted on Aug 30, 2014
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Metallic Green Leaf Beetle - Callidemum sp. (?)
http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_...