The Beetle and the Egg
by Paul Rebmann
Title
The Beetle and the Egg
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A colorful Florida flea beetle on a beach false foxglove plant nest to an egg of a common buckeye butterfly.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Bugs Bugs and more Bugs (3/10/2023) &
The 200 Club – Best photos with over 200 views up to 500 (5/30/2023)
This small beetle is known to occur throughout the Florida peninsula. Some sources list this as a Florida endemic, others report that it is also found in Alabama and Georgia.
The Florida flea beetle is very small and brightly colored. The elytra have alternating bold black and yellow stripes running lengthwise separated by narrow white stripes. The head can be brown to black and the pronutum is brown or reddish and bordered in white. The antennae are dark and each is made up of 11 segments.
Host plants are members of the broom-rape family, Orobanchaceae, such as this beach false foxglove (Agalinis fasciculata).
Common buckeye butterflies are residents of the southern United States north along both coasts to central California and North Carolina, south to southern Mexico, plus Bermuda and Cuba. Adults from the south's first brood migrate north in late spring and summer throughout most of the United States and parts of southern Canada.
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