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Metallic blue flea beetle

Altica pagana

Photo by lori.tas
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Field Notes

Description:

A 0.5cm (0.2 inch) long beetle. Bright metallic blue.

Habitat:

They come in the hundreds to our patch of buzzies (acaena novae zelandiae) every year to mate.

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Altica pagana

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lori.tas
Don't they though. ;) I keep seeing the occasional straggler who apparently missed out on the mass breeding event.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2011

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