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Polyphylla decemlineata
also known as Watermelon Beetle, or Ten Lined Giant Chafer
Spotted on Jul 1, 2011
Submitted on Jun 3, 2012
10 Comments
Wow! Beautiful colour!
it sure did, i have another video where he started to fly, i never put it on youtube because it was so blurry.
He had some interesting defensive maneuvers against you in the video! Nice find!
Thank you, and yeah i couldn't get a good enough picture of him on the ground so i had to pick him up, he was super clingy.
very nice spotting, I like the fact it is on an object I can use to gauge its size
Great beetle!
Haha, well we are all learning new things on here. :)
Cool. I wasn't aware Scarabs did that.
Thank you, and yes it is, when i heard it start making that noise i just had to take video, i didn't know it was called stridulating.
Awesome spotting. Is that the beetle stridulating?