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Shiny beetle.... ' Cetonia aurata '

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Today as i had a day off i decided to re-evaluate the delphiniums as they were looking a bit sad to say the least, so i cut down the bad ones and chucked it on my compost heap….

To my surprise this big bee like insect flew at me and then back on the heap….

So i was fascinated as i was sure i spotted green on it.. so here it is….

A Green Rose Chafer… now i was in a predicament as it’s a chafer do i catch it and release it away from the garden or as this one is not too bad leave him or just go medieval on his ass…. But then i though well he is Shiny….

But then chafer’s larva are normally really bad news…. ..But he is very Shiny :-)

So i did some research in my books and internet and these rose chafer’s are not that bad and they make compost and i did have a compost heap….. But then it dawned on me i was trying to convince myself to leave it…

So as it’s a compost helper and it was on my heap it’s no real trouble is it….. but i think really i just liked it because it was Shiny :-))

Thanks for looking :-))

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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... :(

13 Jun, 2012

 

Oh, GOOD! So lovely!

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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...

13 Jun, 2012

 

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 :-))

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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! :)))

13 Jun, 2012

amy
Amy
 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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. :))

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

What? :)))

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

LOL§§§ oops!!! :DDD

13 Jun, 2012

 

Lol. Lil ;o)

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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 :)

13 Jun, 2012

 

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!!! :))

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

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

13 Jun, 2012

 

Ah Pixi, don't ever change! :)

13 Jun, 2012

 

lol no I dint thonk O woll! lilil!

13 Jun, 2012

 

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 :))

14 Jun, 2012

 

fantastic pictures:)))))

14 Jun, 2012

 

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

14 Jun, 2012

 

I thought Cornish people called tourists grockles?

14 Jun, 2012

 

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

14 Jun, 2012

 

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

14 Jun, 2012

 

Thanks Hywel :-)

14 Jun, 2012

 

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

17 Jun, 2012

 

Lol yes Bornagain :-)

17 Jun, 2012

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