"The" beetle that is on the bottle!

[Jean-Michel MAES]

More on beer insects.
I have a picture of a butterfly drinking in a beer bottle cap.
I take the picture last week end at Domitila, the first private protected area in Nicaragua.
If interested I can send it (JPG, not heavy format).

Sincerely,


Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527
LEON
NICARAGUA
tel 505-3116586
jmmaes at ibw.com.ni
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Westcott 
  To: ENTOMO-L at LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:39 PM
  Subject: "The" beetle that is on the bottle!


    >... Joe Keiper's message reminded me of times I have found large
    > numbers of beetles and, in one instance, a mouse skeleton, in empty beer bottles.
    >

    It might be interesting for you to determine the sex of the beetles in your bottle-- there has been a pretty well documented incident of male beetles (can't remember what species; any of our Aussie colleagues care to fill in the gaps here?)


  Well, I've yet to see a reply from any of our Aussie colleagues. Andy McClelland provided the reference "Beetles on the Bottle", and yes, this critter had been on t.v....and it is a buprestid (as someone said)....The species is a very large one, JULODIMORPHA BAKEWELLI. If any of you is interested to see what it looks like, I have a JPEG file with a color illustration.

  By the way, Eric's question (I think it was) that started this thread had to do with beetles IN the bottle...the buprestid is ON the bottle. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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