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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@inbextween​ replied to your post:

You like beetles? Of all the species in Coleoptra, the Scarab is my favorite. What's yours? Are you a teacher?

I love them. Ah, Scarabaeidae! They are quite a fascinating family of beetles. Do you have a favorite within the subclass? I’m partial to Tenebrionidae myself. They’re commonly known as Darkling beetles. I’d say my favorite tenebrionidae is the female Neomida bicornis. 

No. Or, sort of. Not really anymore, though. Used to be a professor of entomology.