Shiny beetle.... ' Cetonia aurata '

Nice Photo's SL.. The colour on beetles is incredible isn't it.? That one's like a scarab glad it survived.

Cheers Pimms, yes the green is really intense on this one :-) he's happy on the compost heap ...

I'm drawn to shiny things as well.......oh look, there's a button ;)

I've been looking this one up too, SL because they're so common here...

But, they might not be so, now...because that bag of bugs I had, when I was doing my pots, were rose chafer larvae!

Now, I was going on my RHS bible's info on what chafer grubs are and what they do...definitely "foe" according to them, to be removed at all costs.

But from what I gather from further enquiry, the adults don't do much harm...and the larvae behave very much like earthworms...definitely "friends"!

I feel like a murderer now... :(

Oh, GOOD! So lovely!

Oooh ... very shiny ... nice :o)

Shiny shiny, you sound like a magpie, just like me - show me something sparkly and I have to have it - coloured glass is probably my favourite thing in the world, followed fairly closely by tinsel! Rosemary beetle is rather lovely to look at, similar colour to this, but not to be desired in the garden...

Lol Lil ;-)

Don't feel to bad Karen i had to look this one up, apparently the cock chafer grubs wriggle about where these ones don't, but they look identical the grubs..

Thanks Melchisedec :-)

Lol thanks Terra :-)

Thanks Bamboo, yes i do like shiny things, maybe i was a magpie in another life :-))

very handsome thing - great photos of it - like beetles, bugs and things :)))))))))

Actually, I've found a few more since then SL. The Rose Chafer grubs have got much blacker, plump and juicier bums than the Cock Chafers...

...and they can move at a surprising rate...there's a "You Tube" Rose Chafer race...!
...I'd give you a link - but I don't know how! lol! :)))

I'm sure he loves you too Slad :o))

Hi, SL, very nice photos, worth of Charles Darwin encyclopedia.
Now please do not laugh, and I apologize as this will sound terribly to you (not to me, as this is foreign language for me) but we call this bug "roller of the shit" as it is - as you said - worker at compost. :))

I take it that's a literal translation of the name from your language, Katarina, lol!

What? :)))

Haha! I know what you mean, Kat...the dung beetle...!

He's wonderful to watch...he makes perfect marbles...of shit! :)))

Or as Pixi would say, 'shot'...lol!

LOL§§§ oops!!! :DDD

Lol. Lil ;o)

Karen, thank you! Yes, I looked on its translation and it is dung beetle what I meant. Thank you. Lol.

Bamboo, you know, all Slovaks are village people, lol.

Paradoxically, in our language it doesn´t mean anything malignant, you know Karen, lol. When young Americans come here, every third word is "shit". So we call them "bugs". Lol.
Áaaaaaaach, this multicultural environment I love :)

Aaaah! Katarina...I think that is a wonderful attitude :))
In our language, it doesn't mean anything malignant either...
It's just that we have, surely, a dozen or more different words to describe that one substance...and only one or two of those words are politely acceptable or even translatable...

I like Americans being bugs...

...in Cornwall, they call the tourists, "Emmits"...or, "ants", in English...but that's just because they're all over the place!!! :))

This whole blog and conversation just made me actually laugh out loud :o)
glad you kept the shiny beetle s.l ! :o)

Yes me too Leigh! great shOts Sl :)))))

Ah Pixi, don't ever change! :)

lol no I dint thonk O woll! lilil!

I would like to apologize here to Surreylad, for this entre terrible, as he is si nice and very polite man :)
SL, thank you for this photo, conversation under it made me smile after a very long time :))

fantastic pictures:)))))

Thanks Everyone, Lol that's made me really laugh reading all this.. i needed cheering up :-))

I thought Cornish people called tourists grockles?

It's beautiful. I'm glad you let it live ...

No, that's not Cornwall...it's further along the coast, out of Celtic waters.

Thanks Hywel :-)

You're part of the bling generation Sl.....so glad you left him alone...he is very shiny isn't he:-)

Lol yes Bornagain :-)