Christmas … beetles and parties!

In Australia Christmas beetles arrive in December and leave in January. Fabulous.
This is my photography group from Meetup which had their Christmas party on Saturday 10/12/22.

[Rick]

Cool capture.

[Taffy]

Very festive! interesting about the beetles

[Corinne C]

A great composition. The beetles look pretty big?

[John Falconer]

@corinnec
Sorry. The beetles are only 15mm or ½ inch. But very noisy.

[John Falconer]

@rickster549 @corinnec Thanks for the much appreciated comments.

[Corinne C]

@johnfalconer Thanks for the answer :-)

[KoalaGardens🐨]

I love em, especially the iridescent ones

[John Falconer]

@koalagardens
At first I looked for iridescent party goers. Then I remembered iridescent Christmas beetles!!

[Kathy A]

Christmas beetles are such interesting insects, I haven't seen any this year yet

[Chris Cook]

I’d never heard of Christmas beetles now I know why. Google tells me they are native to Australia

[Diana]

Great shot of the beetle, we have then too, albeit a bit more colourful.

[Peter]

Lovely story and composition John:)

[Valerie Chesney]

Like this shiny hard beetle...
Haven't seen a Christmas beetle this year (yet).
I have been to three Christmas parties though..

[Carole Sandford]

Lovely composition!

[John Falconer]

@kjarn @cdcook48 @ludwigsdiana @pcoulson @happysnaps @carole_sandford
Thanks for the much appreciated comments. Love it!

[Bill Davidson]

Lovely image.

[Harry J Benson]

Good setup

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Very cool.

[wendy frost]

How fascinating to have a visiting beetle at Christmas. Great capture.

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Nina Ganci]

The Christmas Beetle is not the beetle I would put with a party

Neat capture of this interesting beetle

[Fisher Family]

An attractive beetle, and a busy looking party!

Ian

[carol white]

Nicely captured

[Pam]

I have never heard of a Christmas beetle. Intersting.

[Margaret Brown]

What a happy bunch, super capture, the beetle is interesting!

[Yao RL]

There is such a thing as Christmas Beetle. Great details.

[Renee Salamon]

Lovely composition

[haskar]

Interesting beetles. What a happy group.

[Beverley]

Brilliant photo…. Happy smiling people
Love it!

[George]

Christmas beatles.. wow .. Good photo.

[Judith Johnson]

What a great photo of your group and of the beetle too!

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot of the lovely party, it seems.
A Christmas beetle? Never heard of it.

[Islandgirl]

Great composition!
Your photography group looks like a fun bunch! lol

[Kathy]

Nice way to display the photo of the group.

[John Falconer]

@billdavidson @hjbenson @mittens @wendyfrost @pdulis @ninaganci @fishers @carolmw @pamalama @craftymeg @yaorenliu @rensala @haskar @beverley365 @pews777 @busylady @pyrrhula @radiogirl @randystreat
Thanks for the much appreciated comments. you Can’t have Christmas in Sydney without very noisy Christmas beetles. The northern hemisphere can keep their beautiful snowscapes!!😀😀😀

[Agnes]

Very cosy

[John Falconer]

@agnesvanderlindeicloudcom
Thanks Agnes. It was.