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Castiarina sexplagiata
A yellow spotted jewel beetle resembling a native bee feeding on the nectar of tea tree flowers. The elytral apex (tip) is always dark in this species but spotting is variable.
Churchill NP Lysterfield is a habitat for tea tree and popular drinking spot for jewel beetles
There are several similar species and over 400 members of the Australian Castiarina genus.
Spotted on Oct 21, 2014
Submitted on Oct 23, 2014
5 Comments
@ Jae, haha, I hadn't made that connection.
Tea tree is named from its early use to make billy tea.
Now that we have good supplies of english tea, we decided it doesn't actually taste that good.
Unfortunately I need to enter the lifeless zone today (the city) It is looking like a good one though.
Testing the new lens, Mark.
If you go there today, you will meet Geoff :)
Great serie, Martin. Didn't know jewel beetles fancy a cuppa :)
Popular drinking spot :)