- also known as the Figeater Beetle, and a member of the scarab family. Really, it looks as though it ought to be a Victorian brooch. He lives on cactus fruit, and sap, and decomposing stuff in compost piles, and mulch, and, presumably, figs. Or, rather, lived - because I found him, deceased, in the gutter and gently carried him back to photograph him somewhere a little less gutter-like. That's an amazing emerald green. I was just so glad that he wasn't an Emerald Ash Borer, which are invasive and terrible (but the only emerald beetle I could name off the top of my head) - they are long and thin, but actually much much smaller - only about half an inch long, whereas the body of this one measures an inch, at least. I'll be on the lookout for a live one ...
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