A macro photograph that fills the frame (landscape oriented) with the flower head of a rudbeckia. The centre of the flower is over to the left, to the right petals are reaching out towards us and on the extremity of one of them is a Common Red Soldier Beetle with it wings out poised for takeoff. This was taken in my garden a year or two ago.

Rudbeckia and Common Red Soldier Beetle

Description in alt.

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a common red soldier beetle on a bent stalk of grass.

A Common Red Soldier Beetle. I learned on the internet that it's a new invasive species here in Ontario Canada. Another on the list of things I thought we did something about, but we don't.
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Common Red Soldier Beetle climbing a stalk of grass, leaning forward as if to say hello. June 2023

Just saying hello…

Common Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva

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Common:
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