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About 20mm long. Feeding on Leptospermum scoparium flowers
About 18mm long. Feeding on Leptospermum scoparium flowers.
A bright orange banded beetle. Supposedly common and widespread.
This small beetle with two clear cream stripes has subtle brassy colors over ...
About 14mm long. Feeding on various flowers including a Daucus-like plant and ...
A small and alert beetle with colorful bands of yellow and red markings. Some ...
I gathered several beetles and put them all on one branch for this photo
This was found dead on my back lawn. We seldom see such large ones.
A deep blue/black beetle with yellow patches among flowering tea tree in a ...
A distinctive jewel beetle with a yellow lateral stripe and a subapical orange ...
With three light bands, this looks like australasiae. Basal blotches are almost ...
This small pale jewel beetle looks very similar to the leaves of the ti-tree on ...
An orange jewel beetle with black spots mimicking the common ladybird beetle is ...
An elongate beetle with pale yellow spots along the elytra.
A large and brightly colored jewel beetle with three bands across the elytra.
This black jewel beetle has two transverse yellow stripes extending completely ...
A bright jewel beetle with two light bands and the apical band infused with ...
A yellow spotted jewel beetle resembling a native bee feeding on the nectar of ...
About 18mm long.. male slightly smaller than female.. feeding (among other ...
Another nice jewel beetle found on ti-tree flowers today. This one a little ...
A small jewel beetle resembling a native bee. They are attracted to fragrant ...
An attractive jewel beetle with banded yellow and blue/black zones resembling a ...
An early jewel beetle on flowering tea tree. This is the first sighting for the ...
A fairly large jewel beetle found on flowering tea tree. The black markings on ...
A medium sized beetle with orange elytra and a complex pattern of black ...
Another variation of this huge genus of brightly colored jewel beetles. This ...
These two insects illustrate sexual dimorphism in these jewel beetles. This is ...
A jewel beetle with a broken yellow stripe through each elytron. Possibly C. ...
A jewel beetle with a bright black and orange pattern.
An orange beetle with elaborate pattern on the back. The orange is stronger ...
This jewel beetle has three yellow bands across the elytra but the apex is ...
A bright jewel beetle. I am told it is sexplagita bot not so sure. I have not ...
Another highly colorful jewel beetle about 15mm long. Deep metallic blue ...
Another similar cream spotted jewel beetle. This one features small cream dots ...
This jewel beetle was a little more elusive than most. Possibly as it was about ...
Another great looking jewel beetle with eight yellow patches on a dark ...
This jewel beetle has three yellow bands and bordered with a bright red trim.
A relatively large buprestid with two yellow bands on a metallic blue ...
This orange jewel beetle is a mimic of a ladybird beetle. This common species ...
A small (10mm) jewel beetle with subtle bright colors. image 2 might possibly ...
