RED LILY BEETLE

Spotted this rather bright mini-beast in the garden and found him quite easy to identify. He is an invasive alien from Asia, a Red Lily Beetle (Lilioceris lilii ), first found in the UK in 1943 it is now widespread across the country. It probably entered the country on imported Lilies.
My other album features a little cutie from the other day.

http://365project.org/markp/Alternatively/2014-04-11

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Neat find and capture

[sarah]

i love beetles Mark.. this image is so interesting.. he's on the move..somewhere. I also think dung beetles are cute :-)

[virtualbrownie]

Great DOF and colours

[*lynn]

wonderful composition and colors!

[DawnLouise]

Amazing! I haven't gotten into macro photography yet, but pictures like these just always astonish me. Very nice

[Avantika]

Gorgeous macro!! Fav

[Louise]

Nice close up.

[Danielle]

Love the composition : )

[Muse]

Great capture! I have some on my lilies every year. A few days ago I took a face picture of one of them (not good enough to post, though) and I realized they are extremely ugly!!

[Milanie]

Wonderful close up shot - such a bright color.

[Mark Prince]

@ziggy77 @sarahview @virtualbrownie @lynnz @not_left_handed @avantika @roachling @doodlebugdee @scatcat @milaniet Thank you all very much for taking the time to view and for leaving your wonderful comments, and thanks for the Fav Avantika

[Larry Mc]

Outstanding work.