This is a correction to my comment about having rosemary but no such beetle in our garden. A partial dorsal view of a beetle photographed on 30 June has the same general appearance and it was on a Rosemary stem. I must check more thoroughly next summer.
Ian, I agree with Brian here. Pics 1 and 4 are special!
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Nice results with the shiny beetle (by Fabergé ? ). We always have rosemary in our garden but I have not seen the beetle.
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Likewise I have lots of rosemary in the garden but have never seen the beetle on it
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