Red Ornate Checkered Beetle of Phaecelia ~ This shot was from the desert wildflower shoot in the Anza Borrego Desert in southern California.
Red Ornate Checkered Beetle on Cholla Cactus Blossom ~ I found two colors of the Ornate Checkered Beetles in the cactus flowers. This one is pollen-covered; when they didn't have pollen on them, the heads were a shiny metallic green, with red feelers.
Cholla Cactus Bloom with Ornate Checkered Beetle ~ I went to Borrego Springs this weekend to shoot wildflowers. A few cactus were in bloom, and I found this Ornate Checkered Beetle in the flowers.
