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Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata), family Scarabaeidae, poland

photograph by Dariusz Rutkowski

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summers around here are dry and joyless and anything that feeds on nectar and pollen isn't going to have much luck, so as a result i'm used to seeing flower chafers like Cetonia aurataeformis strictly during the spring months. to this day i'm still not sure how this one made it to november, but it must've been missing flowers as much as i was

i peeked around different angles to make sure it was alive (god knows they love to die in the most random places) and it did a stupid dance about it

(November 20th, 2025)

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Rose chafers on meadowsweet - friendly little giants.

(Cetonia aurata, imago, on Filipendula ulmaria)

Note - Protaetia cuprea ssp. metallica is also relatively common in the north west palaeartic and i can't remember checking the difference. The lack of white knees, and lack of dent at the top part of the wing cases surrounding the scutellum, and that C. aurata is probably the more common species around here has me settled on this ID but who knows ! I might be wrong.

28.vi.2020

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Top Five Insects I’ve Seen - #4 – The Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)

The #4 #Insect I've seen - The #rose #chafer #beetle (Cetonia aurata). One of the most #brilliant, #beautiful #insects you can see in the #UK. #InsectWeek #InsectWeek22 #Entomology #Nature #Wildlife #Britain #coleoptera

Surely one of the most stunning insect species we have in the UK – the rose chafer beetle (Cetonia aurata) (Credit: Me) I was initially going to write a list of top five most striking UK insects but alas when I actually put grey matter to the task I realised the list would be mostly, if not exclusively, beetles. Beetles, the order coleoptera, are a huge group. Of all the species described in…