Colorful Green Scarab Beetle (Chrysina woodi)
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Update from Gil, who somehow was able to tell this species apart from the 1375 others in North America: The scarab beetle from 10/07 is Chrysina woodi, a species of jewel-scarab found in the US only in west Texas, where it frequents walnut trees. Previously Gil had said: "This is a Scarab beetle. family Scarabaeidae. It is a stunner, but all I can tell you is that it is one of 1375 species of scarab beetle found in North America. I forgot who said it, but it was said that "God had an inordinate fondness of beetles" (and I once saw a beautiful coffee table book called "Inordinate Fondness of Beetles"). It appears J. B. S. Haldane is probably the source of this quote, or at least sentiment. Davis Mountains, West Texas, 10/2007.
Gil says: "These I can say with certainty belong to the family Cantharidae, the Soldier beetles, which eat pollen and nectar. I do not know what species they are, but they are one of the 455 species in that family in North America." Davis Mountains, West Texas, 10/2007. Soldier beetles seem aptly named as they were furiously going about their business in great numbers. There were hundreds of them on dining on whatever these wild dandelion/sunflower things are.
These guys are much easier to photograph when they are carrying lunch, as lunch slows them down a great deal... Davis Mountains, West Texas, 10/2007.
This Katydid was also helping him/herself to the wildflower bounty. Davis Mountains, West Texas, 10/2007.
This guy took a liking to my finder scope at the HAS astronomy site 9/2007. I thought it kind of looks like a mayfly of some sort. So far I have 2 "mayfly" and one lantern bug. AC writes: ...Mayfly, order Ephemeroptera, 3 families and a total of 585 known species in North America." I know we had some sort of Mayfly in May/June on some of the small lakes in Michigan. Gil, my email buddy of great critter identification skills, says:
"No one I know ever tries to identify Mayflies beyond calling them mayflies. The photo you took is good, but the the critical points for me to narrow it down to one of the families within Ephemeroptera are obscured (they involve the veins on the wings, specifically the lowermost one on each wing). Perhaps a local entomologist would recognize the species by its color pattern."
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 Spiders! |  Bees and Wasps |  Marshland Pictures featuring Dragonflies and Damselflies |
 Dragon Fly |  Bug Enjoying Snack (Assassin Bug?) More info on above at: More! Lizard & Bugs |  Texas Wildflower Gallery 2005 - Page 3 |
 See this bug on my Morning in The Woodlands page | Texas Wildflower (more stink bugs?) Gallery 2005 - Page 2, |  Ladybugs and Lizards |
 Robber Fly (bottom of page) |  Translucent Green Spider on Flowers. See Anole, Spider, Caterpillar for more inf |  Here's my main Flower Page. Flowers attract bugs! |
| Original Lizard & Bugs Page | Recent: Texas Wildflower Gallery 2005 (Damsel fly on bluebonnet) | |
 Robber Fly with Lunch |  Praying Mantis Picture # 2 Also called Praying Mantid |  More Spiders! |
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|  Large Milkweed Bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) Nikon N90s, Nikon 105mm F2.8D macro lens, Flash @ 1/60s, Kodak E200 slide film, f32 |
More good stuff here, including another Robber Fly. Texas Hill Country Wimberly Pictures (Images by Dick Locke)
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