Beyer’s Scarab and Mexican Blue Oak
Chrysina beyeri and Quercus oblongifolia
Acrylic on watercolor paper, 2012
$300
11 x 11″ framed
Beyer’s scarab (Chrysina beyeri) is a lovely lime-green beetle native to the American southwest and Mexico. This jewel scarab really does have metallic lavender legs! It is pictured here with one of its host plants, Mexican blue oak (Quercus oblongifolia). This is one in a series of paintings of insects with their host plants.
