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Green fruit beetle, or Fig beetle

Cotinis mutabilis

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Field Notes

Habitat:

I found this inects on a magnolia tree.

Notes:

The beetle was attracted to the oozing sap, caused by parasite scab like insects that were all over the trunk, and the surrounding branches of the magnolia tree.

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PublishedAugust 15, 2016

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