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Calligraphy
Posted by on October 27, 2010
This is one of my favourite late-summer/autumn beetles…
Calligrapha vicina. Beautiful ink-black inscriptions on an ivory shell; a living work of art.
I’m always happy to come across one of these gems, usually amidst a backdrop of scarlet dogwood stems.
Calligrapha spp. rock. There is one here in Missouri (C. spireae, I think) that is found on ninebark (Physocarpos opulifolius) – looks a lot like this one but has blushes of red/pind on the elytra. I’ll have to look for it in the spring and put up some photographs.
Do I see an AIF submission?
Ooh! Good idea! I’ll get it in
pind = pink
Wow. That’s a beetle’s beetle.
Indeed
he’s beautiful
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