Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata), family Scarabaeidae, found in various parts of Europe

photograph by Chrumps

Top Five Insects I’ve Seen - #4 – The Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)

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Surely one of the most stunning insect species we have in the UK – the rose chafer beetle (Cetonia aurata) (Credit: Me) I was initially going to write a list of top five most striking UK insects but alas when I actually put grey matter to the task I realised the list would be mostly, if not exclusively, beetles. Beetles, the order coleoptera, are a huge group. Of all the species described in…

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Little study :D

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Cetonia aurata, known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 mm (¾ in) long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax, and having several other irregular small white lines and marks. The underside is a coppery colour. This is a compilation of multiple images showing a take-off.

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Cetonia aurata, the rose chafer

Say hi to Alfred, he came to visit me today.

How I think my eyes look like here:

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La soddisfazione quando...

un amico ti dice "ho trovato alcuni insetti enormi verdi metallizzati, ma non idea di cosa siano". E tu gli rispondi: è questo?

E lui tutto contento ti dice "Sì, sì, è proprio lui!".

Grazie mille Cetonia aurata, mi hai fatto fare l'ennesimo figurone con gli amici 😂

(foto wikipedia)

Green Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)

Une cétoine dorée (Cetonia aurata) qui dort sur les nouvelles fleurs d'une viorne lantane (Viburnum lantana) // a European rose chafer sleeping on the new flowers of a wayfaring tree.

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Not fandom related but please observe my super cool new insect friend (green chafer beetle, cetonia aurata)