Metallic blue flea beetle
Altica pagana
Description:
A 0.5cm (0.2 inch) long beetle. Bright metallic blue.
Habitat:
They come in the hundreds to our patch of buzzies (acaena novae zelandiae) every year to mate.
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Spotted on Aug 22, 2011
Submitted on Aug 22, 2011
2 Comments
Don't they though. ;) I keep seeing the occasional straggler who apparently missed out on the mass breeding event.
Gee they multiply quickly.