#3303 · 🪲 beetles

Copper Chafer

Protaetia cuprea

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
2. © Marina Nikonorova · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 7091 WZ:© femketb · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Nationaal Park Dwingelderveld, Spier, Drenthe, NL:© dilanaangel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Sint Servatiusweg, Venray, Limburg, NL:© Mats Douma · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Maarsbergen:© lena345 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Rhenen, Netherlands:© Aalbert Rebergen · CC BY 4.0
10. Hengelo, Nederland:© broncoblue · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Protaetia cuprea , also known as the copper chafer , is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae. This species is also known as the rose chafer and has a wide geographic distribution, extending from Canary Islands, Portugal, and Spain to the west towards Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, and North China. This species forages for pollen from flowers and fruits, such as apples, from trees. However, since fruit is scarce in the spring and...

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NL sightings 68iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,979iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).