Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Golden Tortoise Beetle

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Found this tiny beetle yesterday in a bucket of water. It caught my eye because it had something like a transparent shell on top of that gold coloured body.

 

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Upon googling it, I found out that it can change colours – from gold to red! Sadly though, this one was already dead…

 

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That’s how it should look like.

 

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2 comments

Siganus Sutor

I've never seen anything like that before. On the top photo (while the insect was still floating on water?), it looks like a stuffed baby doll... surrounded by a rim of agar-agar.

carrotmadman6

It was really tiny - about 7mm long.

This Flickr photo has more details: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5224/5613909914_ea819e2b44_z.jpg

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