The nearest I can come to identification is that it seems to belong to the Dung Beetle family as there is no picture of it in my insect book. This one was about 5mm in length and kept on trying to burrow itself into my towel to hide so I had to pick him up and try a one handed shot of him crawling on my other hand. (A good thing this old bird is not scared of things like this or else you would not get this pic. LOL!!) He is a beautiful beetle and the shot came out pretty good as you can see his three colours.
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Nikola: thanks for the nice comment Nikola, they are lovely but this was quite small, not like the usual scarab's. probably a baby one
Thanks for the comment Ken. The metalic colours did not show in all the pics I took, it depended on how the sun caught him.the metallic colors of these are really neat
Nikola: thanks for the nice comment Nikola, they are lovely but this was quite small, not like the usual scarab's. probably a baby one
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Thanks for the comment Bruce. LOL!! You must have different beetles than we do. Here they are pretty slow except for one which went jogging down the road at top speed. But I put something down in front of him (my hand) and he stopped long enough to get his picture taken. This little fellow kept on burrowing into everything so eventually I had to pick him up in order to get something decent. Must be something in the air there!!
Joan Young
That is one excellent looking Beetle Joan. Incredible colors You did an excellent job on the photo also. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. This is a fine example of why I started enjoying insects when I was a young one, because of the fantastic shapes and colors you find on them. I looked at this one and my eyes just popped out. . I would agree on the dung beetle ID because of the classic shovel head. I found out a long time ago...you will never have enough books to ID a lot of the insects you find.
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Doug Breda
Thank you for your lovely comment Doug. I thought you might like this one.I found out a long time ago...you will never have enough books to ID a lot of the insects you find.
Unfortunately you are right about books...they are very scarce here too and not knowing them, it is difficult to give a proper name. No wonder you have such an interest in them. I have come across some beautiful ones since I started taking photos of them.
Joan Young