Insect

Flower chafer beetle

Oxycetonia versicolor

Shiny orange-brown flower chafer with white spots

Scientific name: Oxycetonia versicolor
Family: Scarabaeidae, order Coleoptera
Group: Insect

A glossy beetle that dives into flowers.

Spot it Shiny orange-brown with black patches and small white spots.
Home Gardens and scrub with flowering plants.
Food web Eats pollen and petals; larvae eat rotting plant matter in soil.
Why it matters Pollinates flowers and recycles dead plants into soil.

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