aussie christmas

Commonly known as christmas beetles, they eat eucalyptus leaves and as you can see are fluorescent and shiny. There are about 35 different varieties, I have fond childhood memories of being fascinated by them in the city! They sure do much a lot of leaf though ...

[PhylM-S]

What neat looking beetles! Super macro - you can even see the hairs on the tail end of the upper one.

[Margaret Snell]

Great close up, lovely looking beetles, I hope they leave some food for the koalas.

[Issi Bannerman]

There's a bit of scoffing going on there! Nice capture of these greedy beetles.

[Sue Cooper]

That’s an amazing close up. What interesting beetles.

[Jesika]

Your Christmas Beetles closely resemble our Demented Flying Billiard Ball, the Cockchafer.
Super find & lovely image
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[Fr1da]

beautiful colours too

[Sapphire]

also love xmas beetles - great shot

[Paul]

Terrific capture :)

[Pyrrhula]

Beautiful micro. Fav. capture. Stunting details.

[Rick]

Great capture. Interesting looking beetles.

[Chris K]

I'm not a big beetle fan but I remember how pretty they are.

[tony gig]

Brilliant capture...Fav