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Green Dock Beetles

DateThu 2012-03-29

From a couple of years back: males and female green dock beetles, Gastrophysa viridula (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).  The females are so swollen with eggs that their wing cases cover less than half of their abdomen.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University griounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-05-28.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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