#fig beetles

[beausbugbiome]

Cotinis mutabilis— fig eater beetle 🌿

[beausbugbiome]

[dyinglikenarcissus]

I typed these exact words into google and it figured out what I was talking about!

“big beetle with iridescent keep flying around my head”

Turns out it’s a fig beetle and this is the first article that popped up

[1photoeachday]

9/1/17 - the reason for my fear in claiming our inheritance of figs

logically, I know that they can’t really harm me, but when I see [or more often, hear] one of these fig beetles flying anywhere in my vicinity, I freak out like a big scaredy cat and duck and cover.