Unidentified pintail or tumbling flower beetle at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Mordellidae (family) | 14 Oct 2024 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Mordellidae (family) | 13 Oct 2024 | abread111 |
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User's notes
Many other pollinators sharing these flowers on the Olearia lirata Snowy Daisy Bush.
This sighting is for the beetles with obvious pintails, there are more on the flower cluster. Some appear to have irregular whitish patches - could these patches be pollen from the daisy anthers?
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.178441-35.247878
- Altitude 718.0m
- Maps Mount Majura
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 13 Oct 2024 03:31 PM Recorded on
- abread111 Recorded by
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Insects Other beetles Beetles (Coleoptera)
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Feeding on nectar or pollen Insect behaviour on flower
- True Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Mordellidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified pintail or tumbling flower beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1613m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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