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Friday, May 13, 2016

Insect: Golden Tortoise Beetle.



Photo by Ilona Loser (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

This guy showed up on my sweet potatoes on Saturday morning. I stared at it in absolute wonder thinking, as a SciFi fan, is this a nano insect? Is it watching me?

It GLEAMED gold.

I was sad to research that they eat sweet potato leaves. So beautiful I might just let it be so I can be in awe of its beauty.

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