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Rose chafer

Cetonia aurata
Scarabs (Scarabaeidae)

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Metallic green to golden-red shiny beetle. The shield is flattened with some white cross stripes of light coloured hairs. The head is darker in colour and the under surface is red-brown. The colour is variable. 

Flies with closed shield, unlike most beetles. Mainly found at forest edges and bushes on flowers on which it feeds.  When cold it stops moving.

⇔ l. 15-20 mm

syn. Green rose chafer, Goldsmith' beetle

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