calissa: A stalk with drying grass seeds sits in the foreground with a golden hill and blue mountains in the background. (Summer)
Calissa ([personal profile] calissa) wrote 2013-12-28 08:17 am (UTC)

Christmas beetle is a common name for an entire genus (Anoplognathus). They are members of the scarab family and tend to be out in numbers around this time of year. Most of the ones I see tend to be tan, sometimes with a bit of iridescent green. This one was quite spectacular!

I'm glad that the card arrived safely :)
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