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Stealthy Immigrant | Plagiodera versicolora A renegade from color runs wild, the ruins<br />
 of salvaged spider-webs hiding<br />
 a stealthy immigrant.<br />
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Stealthy Immigrant | Plagiodera versicolora

A renegade from color runs wild, the ruins
of salvaged spider-webs hiding
a stealthy immigrant.

Wild Light Post: http://www.bugdreams.com/archives/stealthy-immigrant/

    comments (6)

  1. Love the flare on the beetle's shield and its color, excellent as always Rick. Wikipedia has no page for it, so I created the species manually. Posted 12 years ago
    1. Thanks Ferdy. I tried but it couldn't find the species. Posted 12 years ago
  2. what a great photo Posted 12 years ago
  3. Love the lighting on this one Rick. Makes it a bit trickier to focus on the subject yet it ads magic to the sene. Thx for your inspiration! Posted 12 years ago
    1. Thanks Ludo. I made this for one of Tamron's Professional Photographer Galleries: http://bit.ly/14DiiWr Posted 12 years ago
  4. Quite a selective list of photographers, good to see you on it, well deserved I say. Posted 12 years ago

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The Willow leaf beetle is a beetle species from the family leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae). The scientific name of the species was first published in 1781 by Laicharting. The species has been imported from Europe into other continents, where it is often considered a pest.

Similar species: Beetles
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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