Subject: Iridescent Beetle?
Geographic location of the bug: Israel
Date: 04/17/2019
Time: 01:30 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Dear bugman,
Found this small iridescent beetle in our garden and was able to catch the colors in this picture. With spring in full bloom, I’m excited to go out everyday to see what critters I find…
How you want your letter signed: T.M.
Dear T.M.,
We suspected this was a Leaf Beetle, and we located a very similar looking mating pair of Chrysolina coerulans angelica on Israel’s Nature Site (scroll down) but your individual has many more alternating stripes on the elytra. We searched the genus and we believe your individual is a Rosemary Leaf Beetle, Chrysolina americana, which we found on iNaturalist.