Beetles devouring my figs
(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) Yesterday I was harvesting figs from my tree before the fig thieves who regularly drive through the neighborhood to poach fruit could get to them, and I spotted these three large shiny green beetles gorging on a fig. The topmost beetle had his entire head buried in the obscenely red meat of these delicious figs. Unlike the human fig thieves who eat my fruit, these iridescent scarabs are always welcome guests at my home.
Appropriately enough, they are called figeater beetles. Link to Flickr set
