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Friday Beetle Blogging: Pelidnota Grapevine Beetle

August 15, 2008 by myrmecos

Pelidnota punctata – Grapevine Beetle
Champaign, Illinois

Here it is: the first insect I’ve photographed since moving to Illinois last week.  I’ve been posting a lot of scarab beetles recently, but can you blame me?  They’re so pretty.

photo details: Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon 20D
ISO 100, f/11, 1/200 sec, indirect strobe in white box.

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Posted in beetles, illinois, Insect Links, Photography Links | Tagged coleoptera, entomology, Nature, Scarabaeidae | 11 Comments

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  1. on August 15, 2008 at 9:30 am James C. Trager

    The only scarbs I’m seeing on grape vines around here are Japanese beetles! Most of the older leaves of virtually every wild grape vine have been skeletonized. These beetles arrived several years ago, and have really exploded during the last three summers.

    The beetle is pretty but I’m waiting for that magic picture of a Polyergus raid from your (our) area. Three species are relatively common in parts of Illinois.


  2. on August 15, 2008 at 4:37 pm Aydin

    Hey! I blogged about the same species today. Interesting coincidence. Mine wasn’t that orange & had brown legs. I’ll put a link to your post.


  3. on August 15, 2008 at 4:42 pm Aydin

    Sorry about this, but the link in the previous comment didn’t work. Here is my post.


  4. on August 15, 2008 at 7:46 pm myrmecos

    Aydin- I was just reading about the color variation in this species on bugguide.net. Super cool to see it illustrated between our two posts. Apparently I have the “northern” form.


  5. on August 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm myrmecos

    James- I presume our local Polyergus raid in the late afternoons here?


  6. on August 15, 2008 at 10:58 pm Modulator

    Friday Ark #204…

    We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? Visit all the …


  7. on August 16, 2008 at 10:56 am Bug Girl

    You moved to Illinois? No longer at U of AZ?

    Hope you’re with the IL Natural History Survey group there–they are fabulous. 🙂

    and lovely photo!


  8. on August 16, 2008 at 11:10 am James C. Trager

    Yep, the raids are normally “scheduled” between 17:30 and 19:00 down here, perhaps a little bit earlier up there. Having said this, I just saw a uniquely early P. lucidus raid the other day — at 12:30!


  9. on August 16, 2008 at 7:28 pm myrmecos

    Bug Girl-

    It’s kind of a long story why I am not at the natural history survey. I had fully intended to be six months ago. However, I’ve instead landed a great postdoc in the entomology department at UI, which is also a first-rate institution.


  10. on August 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm Bug Girl

    Indeed it is! Best of luck there.


  11. on August 20, 2008 at 5:37 am Burning Silo » Blog Archive » things that go bump in the night

    […] of a similar beetle on August 15th, and had linked to a post about a sighting of another of the same beetles on Alex Wild’s Myrmecos […]



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