The first one I saw was electric blue and if it is not called the“Stained Glass Bug” then it should be. It crawled along the trunk of a tree near me. I took lots of photos and then I sat on a bench by the sea to eat my lunch.
I caught a flash of colour from the corner of my eye and found that it had followed me. Even more surprising was that two others had joined us, one orange and one yellow.
Every day I find new things to amaze. If you know what they are called, please share. It is the first time I have seen these, and I hope not the last.
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The only bug I know that's iridescent like these are Christmas Beetles, but I'm not sure that yours look big enough for them?
Also Christmas Beetles usually only appear around... Christmas time!!
So... really... I don't know LOL :)
Christmas Bugs? What a geat name. I looked it up on Google and they don't look quite right but there was a photo of a Harlequin Bug. Maybe that is it. Thanks for the idea.
I think I found it. Here is some information I found interesting. The Cotton Harlequin Bug is a member of the Jewel Bug family named for their bright metallic colouration.
The males and females of the Cotton Harlequin Bug are different colours, with the females mostly orange and the males mostly blue-red.
The Cotton Harlequin Bug feeds on many species belonging to the hibiscus plant family (Malvaceae), including ornamental hibiscus species and cotton. It feeds mostly on young shoots, piercing the stems and sucking the sugar-rich juices intended for shoot growth
Cotton Harlequin Bugs are sometimes a minor pest of cotton and have been known to cause the introduction of a fungus, which rots the cotton boll. In gardens, they cause flower buds to drop prematurely.
Watch out for your hibiscus flowers everyone.
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