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Goldsmith Beetle
Cotalpa lanigera
44.6447, -85.7673
Field Notes
Description:
A large yellow/green scarab with no elytral markings. Elytra has irregular rows of punctures
Habitat:
Deciduous forests and woodlands, adjacent fields
Notes:
Edgar Allen Poe wrote the story "The Gold Bug" and supposedly his fictitious bug which bit one of the main characters is fashioned after this gold bug and another one that I have listed , the click beetle http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6647156
Pretty cool
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