{"id":35637,"date":"2026-06-25T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35637"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:17:11","slug":"flower-beetle-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35637","title":{"rendered":"Flower beetle mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for a crab spider eating on a daisy. I didn&#8217;t find one.<\/p>\n<p>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, <em>Lepturobosca chrysocama<\/em> is fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A shot of the flower beetle was seen as I walked up past the daisies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35639\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/yellowvelvetbeetle260624as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I walked down again past the daisies, there were two of them positioning to mate.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35640\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/yellowvelvetbeetle260624bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t time to get an accurate focus. Fun, nevertheless.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35638\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/yellowvelvetbeetle260624cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was looking for a crab spider eating on a daisy. I didn&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35637"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35646,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637\/revisions\/35646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}