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Beetles

Description:

A variety of colors..and the little red ones(milkweed bugs, onopeitus fasciatus)

Habitat:

In th blossom of the prickly pear cactus

Notes:

I'm more interested in the insects on this than it...they got on it a few weeks later & had an orgy..

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3 Comments

freelancing
freelancing 11 years ago

They look like flower chafer beetles of some kind. Perhaps June beetles.

You should consider joining the Beetles in Texas mission and adding this siting to the mission:
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tiberio_graco
tiberio_graco 12 years ago

Probably subfamily Cetoniinae

RobertShinn
RobertShinn 12 years ago

no idea...

RobertShinn
Spotted by
RobertShinn

Austin, Texas, USA

Spotted on Apr 10, 2004
Submitted on Aug 16, 2011

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