A gorgeous beetle, from rq. 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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A gorgeous beetle, from rq. 1500 x 996, click for full size.
© rq. All rights reserved.
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Wow, look at that green!
Looks almost robotic.
They change colour, depending on the angle of the sun, from a greenish-yellow sheen, to a deep, burnished copper.
Very beautiful. Is that a cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) inflorescence?
June bug? I’m far from an expert, or even a lay person, when it comes to most bugs. I am familiar with many of our unique critters here in the desert, but that’s about it.
No, snow-in-the-mountain. Not that there’s any mountains around here. :)
rq @ 5
Cow parsley (Fi: koiranputki, dog’s pipe/tube) is so common here so it first came into my mind, snow-in-the-mountain (a fancy name, that) would be vuohenputki (goat’s pipe/tube).
How big was the beetle? 15-20 mm?
Nearly 3, actually. They get quite large. A couple of years ago I got a collection of photos of 4 -- 6 of these beetles on similar flowers (can’t remember now if it was the same or wild carrots or queen anne’s lace), and they’re all that large. And shiny!
Also the local name is gārsa and my husband comes from a town supposedly named after the weed (it’s a weed, invincible one too, edible in early spring as a salad green, apparently good for tea to ease the symptoms of gout, hence its alternative names).