Metallic Golden Green Beetle
Jul 16, 2019 09:28:41 #
This is a profile and ventral view of a metallic golden green colored beetle. If you can help identify it please tell me so that I know the next time that I come across one.
It rained like the dickens the day we left the campsite and it was floating in a puddle of water and it also took the ride home in the pill bottle of vodka.
These are stacked images and I used a piece of black velvet placed behind the subject to create the black background. I tried a white background and a colored background however it was difficult to get the metallic colors to show as I saw them.
Thanks in advance to all that view and for your comments, suggestions and critique.
It rained like the dickens the day we left the campsite and it was floating in a puddle of water and it also took the ride home in the pill bottle of vodka.
These are stacked images and I used a piece of black velvet placed behind the subject to create the black background. I tried a white background and a colored background however it was difficult to get the metallic colors to show as I saw them.
Thanks in advance to all that view and for your comments, suggestions and critique.
Jul 16, 2019 09:35:43 #
Jul 16, 2019 09:35:54 #
HamBar06
Loc: Philadelphia, PA
looks like what we call Japanese Beetles in the northeast USA. Get rid of as many as you can.
Larry
Larry
Jul 16, 2019 09:45:09 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Yep, it’s a Japanese beetle alright. Serious pest if you have an ornamental or vegetable garden. As kids, we knew them as June Bugs. We would capture them and tie a 5 or 6 foot length of sewing thread to one of their legs then release them as we held the thread. Was like having a miniature live model airplane. The things we did as kids makes me just shake my head sometimes 🤭
Stan
Stan
Jul 16, 2019 10:15:41 #
Japanese beetles and junebugs are two different things. Japanese beetles are why I don't grow roses. Junebugs mostly annoy me by flying into the screens with a buzz and thump.
Jul 16, 2019 10:27:25 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Yeah, I know that now. But back then as a kid, that’s what we called the Japanese beetle - they usually appeared in late June.
Here is a reference to a similar looking scarab beetle that is also known as a June bug - which looks like what we called a June bug.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinis_nitida
Stan
Here is a reference to a similar looking scarab beetle that is also known as a June bug - which looks like what we called a June bug.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinis_nitida
Stan
Jul 16, 2019 11:52:51 #
We called them Junebugs, too. And the larva we called grubworms and used them as fish bait.
Jul 16, 2019 13:02:28 #
Bill identified it as a "Scarab Beetle".
I've learned that they played an important part in ancient Egyptian religion and that they were a symbol that was used quite often. King Tut had a scarab beetle on his breastplate made from glass that was believed to have been formed by a meteor striking the desert sand eons before civilization.
I've learned that they played an important part in ancient Egyptian religion and that they were a symbol that was used quite often. King Tut had a scarab beetle on his breastplate made from glass that was believed to have been formed by a meteor striking the desert sand eons before civilization.
Jul 16, 2019 13:37:51 #
The Missouri Dept. of Conservation says it's a Green June Beetle https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/green-june-beetle
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Jul 16, 2019 19:33:21 #
Jul 16, 2019 21:50:32 #
Jul 16, 2019 22:09:10 #
BlueMorel wrote:
Cool!
because...of course..........that is when they appear!
Jul 17, 2019 07:29:38 #
HamBar06 wrote:
looks like what we call Japanese Beetles in the northeast USA. Get rid of as many as you can.
Larry
Larry
Jul 17, 2019 07:47:10 #
Jul 17, 2019 07:56:19 #
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