I was looking for a crab spider eating on a daisy. I didn’t find one.
Instead, I found a yellow velvet beetle mating. Well, the bug is also known as the golden flower longhorn beetle, and also the golden-haired flower longhorn. Ah, the ambiguity of the naming of bugs. At least the scientific name, Lepturobosca chrysocama is fixed.
A shot of the flower beetle was seen as I walked up past the daisies.
When I walked down again past the daisies, there were two of them positioning to mate.
They then mated. They were fast and it was all over in about 1/8 of a second. The speed of the event meant that there wasn’t time to get an accurate focus. Fun, nevertheless.
