Get to know the thick-legged flower beetle! These beautiful, green-suited insects are part of the group called beetles, or Coleoptera if you like to use scientific names. The Beatles are the most prolific band of the 60s whereas b eetles are currently the most diverse animal group of all time. One In four animals known to science is a beetle.
So hypothetically, if you had a bag with one of every described animal species and put your hand in to take one out, a quarter of the time it’ll be a beetle! So, to put it another way the thick-legged flower beetle, or oedemera nobilis, is one in around 400,000 beetle species.
I think they’re fascinating, but I wish they were a bit bigger as then people (myself included) could appreciate them a lot easier. But while it’s the size it is - it’s just right to hang out where it does and, act as an important pollinator.