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Plague Soldier beetle
A beetle with a yellow/orange prothorax and dark green/black elytra. The bright colours are a warning to any predator..these beetles exude a white viscous fluid from their glands that is repellent. Here a single specimen, but sometimes I've seen them in massive mating swarms and that's quite a sight.
15 mm length
The plague soldier beetle or green soldier beetle is a species of soldier beetle native to Australia. It has a flattened body to 15 millimetres long with a prominent yellow-orange stripe behind the black prothorax. The abdomen is yellow-orange but is mostly obscured by the metallic olive green elytra.
Similar species: Beetles
By Ruth Spigelman
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Uploaded Mar 9, 2019. Captured Feb 5, 2019 06:59 in 59 Merewether St, Merewether NSW 2291, Australia.
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