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Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle

Buprestidae

Photo by misako
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Field Notes

Description:

Small Metallic Wood-boring Beetle (approx 1 cm long) feeding on a yarrow blossom.

Habitat:

Olympia Trail in Mount Diablo State Park, Clayton, CA.

Notes:

Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.
The larger and more spectacularly colored jewel beetles are highly prized by insect collectors. The elytra of some Buprestidae species have been traditionally used in beetlewing jewellery and decoration in certain countries in Asia, like India, Thailand and Japan.
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Thank you for the ID John La Salle!

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