Rose Chafer Banquet



Rose Chafer

In Sossano (Italy, Vicenza region), a plum tree beared ripe plums.
Rose Chafer were visiting this tree and having a banquet...

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They moved rather plumsily to the meeting point.
Numerous little red-eyed flies were also in the party, some of them even daring to take a good observation position on the back of the beetle. With such a load of beetles, plums only remained there by miracle... and fell to the ground with their passengers.
A few days later, I could see in another spot of the garden that a rose chafer had met its destiny.


All pictures taken in July 2005.
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Last update: September 2005
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