cat: Brunidora, escarabat de les flors; esp: Escarabajo del sudario; eng: White-spotted Rose Beetle
Sant Salvador de Guardiola-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 10 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Coleoptera > (Polyphaga) > (Scarabaeiformia-Scarabaeoidea) > family: Scarabaeidae
When it flies sounds like a buzzing bee. It feeds on the tender parts of some flowers. The young imagos have many hairs, but are lost with time.
There was no way to see his head, licking the pollen all the time.