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Black-banded Oak Borer / Corebo fasciato

Coroebus florentinus

Description:

Green-blue metallic adults reach the size of 15 mm.

Habitat:

It is found on oak trees of Mediterranean and Western Europe, mainly feeding on holm oaks.

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12 Comments

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Hahah, I knew the nokia one, but had never heard the rakija one! But it's a perfect one :)

injica
injica 10 years ago

you know that slogan nokia connecting people well this is a better version of that slogan ;D

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

no :)

injica
injica 10 years ago

ha ha ha of course we have rakija didn't you hear about that one: rakija correcting people ;D

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Hahaha, that's true! Do you have 'rakija' in croatia? Both doves had a hint of blue, the grey one had a blue circle around the eye that's she liked it, if she has liked it :)

injica
injica 10 years ago

Faredin, as long as it has some warm whisky color, the concentration in just right ;D Jopy, that obvious since you start liking Faredin's doves ;D

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

haha beautiful beetle! i'm not jealous this time, have seen enough colors last few days, now need something brown and grey :)

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

True the concentration is important :)

injica
injica 10 years ago

of course ;D strong too :P

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

I hope after this you had some colorful cocktails :)

injica
injica 10 years ago

ha ha no she isn't, she is well fed with joy having spotted thousands of butterflies over the past days :D I wasn't even bug-hunting today, I was on my way to have a cocktail when my best friend saw this in front of us ;) that was a sign that we must have something colorful ;D

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

That's a good one injica, I can feel the jealousy of jopy :)

injica
Spotted by
injica

Croatia

Spotted on Aug 14, 2013
Submitted on Aug 14, 2013

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