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Macro of beetle of Oedemera nobilis feeding on a white edelweiss flower

couple of jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles (anthaxia hungarica) mating on a flower

$The musk beetle (Aromia moschata) is a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle belonging to the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Callichromatini. Its name comes from the delicate musky smell it emits when menaced.\nDescription:\nThis beetle is characterised by very long antennae (like all other Cerambycids and a somewhat coppery or greenish metallic tint. The typical form, characterised by a pronotum with a metallic color, is widespread in Europe, except for most of Spain and Southern Italy. In such regions, in North Africa, and in Asia to Japan, the species is represented by some subspecies characterised by a more or less red pronotum. The antennae are longer than the entire head and body length in male and as long as body in females. Nevertheless, the Oriental subspecies have usually shorter antennae. \nBiology:\nThe adults are usually found on leaves, especially those of the willow trees, where the larva of this species lives. The secretion with the characteristic musky smell is produced in thoracic glands, and is expelled through openings located on the distal part of the metasternum, near the hind legs articulation. The secretion was formerly supposed to contain salicylaldehyde or a salicylic ether, but there is now evidence that it consists instead mainly of four different monoterpenes, among which rose oxide, one of the most important fragrances in perfumery (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made in a Marsh Region in the Netherlands, where Willows are growing.$

Coleoptera Anthaxia hungarica feeding on yellow flower, Sierra de Mariola, Alcoy, Spain

Summer day: single hoverfly on a blooming white queen annes lace

Closeup on a clicking beetle, Hemicrepidius niger, eating on a white flower in a grassland against in a green background

Green pearl beetle closeup on a pink flower

Cornflower close up. Compyloneuro virgula beetle in the foreground.

Blue beetle on a yellow flower. Macro shooting of insects.

An agapostemon virescens gathers pollen from a New-England aster flowers.

Closeup of Anthaxia hungarica (jewel beetle)

Different insects on the blooming anise.

Athous haemorrhoidalis, a Common brown click-beetle, resting on a sprig of Cow parsley. The beetle is close-up and well focussed with the background losing focus until it becomes dark green or black.

Ants crawl on the inflorescences Garden Angelica in the spring.

A thick-legged flower beetle (Oedemera nobilis) feeding. Taken in Norfolk, England.

Cow parsley with flies gathering nectar.

green bug on a white summer flower in wild field

Cuckoo wasp (aka emerald wasp) on Queen Anne's lace (aka wild carrot) in summer, Connecticut. A small, brilliantly colored, parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in the nests of other insects. So named because cuckoos (i.e., birds) are brood parasites as well.

A Japanese beetle landed on an aster flower in summer in a garden.

Malachite Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus) male with slightly opened wings on an Evergreen Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens), Germany

Mylabris pusilla - a beetle sits on a flower against a background of green leaves

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