Babacar Ndiaye
Alex WildThis beetle belongs to the genus Euphoria. That’s its actual name. And I can see why!
New photo from this afternoon of a Euphoria kernii visiting white prickly poppy. UT Austin’s Brackenridge Field Lab.
neville park@alexwild I learned about these beetles from this delightful reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comments/n0woy0/_/
OP:
> They certainly were happy!! Swimming around in the anthers for literally hours, to the point that the sun started to set and the flower closed on him! I could see his little legs moving through the side of the bud and peeking through some petals. Absolutely adorable but I had to wonder what he was thinking just lolling around in that flower all day - Euphoria is the perfect name for this happy scarab :)
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