Rose chafer

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Rose bug (Cetonia aurata)

***** Location: Europa
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

Cetonia aurata,
known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, rose bug, 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.



Rose chafers are capable of very fast flight; they do it with their wing cases down thus resembling a bumble bee. They feed on flowers, nectar and pollen, in particular roses (from where they get their name); which is where they can be found on warm sunny days,
between May and June/July, occasionally to September.

Rose chafers are found over southern and central Europe and the southern part of the UK where they seem to be sometimes very localized.
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Worldwide use

tamamushi 玉虫 / 金花虫 (たまむし) jewel beetle
two-striped green buprestid, metallic wood borer
Fam. Julodinae, Polycsetinae
kigo for late summer


. Beetles in all seasons .


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Things found on the way



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HAIKU

attempting to fly off
the mellow grape,
a tipsy rose bug

s prezrelog grozda
pokušava poletjeti
pripit gundevalj

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic, Croatia -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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***** . Beetles in all seasons .


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