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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Just found this huge green beetle   unfortunately,  it's  dead. Can anyone identify the deceased?


    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @B3 That's a deceased Cetonia aurata
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2021
    Thanks @Papi Jo. I'll have a look.
    PS I hope mine had as good a time before it died.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Looks like it got legless :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Something ate just the legs?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe I  knocked them  off when I  tipped it over  .That step gets  really  hot so maybe it got cooked after it had died.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I am interested in the patterning of lady birds. Are there random elements at play? It's interesting to see two bugs with different sets of spots mating or attempting to. Do they hybridise, like hellebores? Does a jiggy black-on-red four spot and a randy black-on-red 13 spot make a baby orange eight and a half spot? Or is that a rude question?

    And, oh, the mad white eye patches. :o


  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Those are both harlequins. They seem to have different forms listed but breeding between the forms seems like normal behaviour. Nice to see they're not racist. https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/harlequin-ladybird 
    I wonder if ants stole B3's legs?

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096

    are you legless, B?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2021
    We have ants @wild edges. They're busy farming on the artichoke and the leucanthemum as they do. But at least you know where to find them.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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