In this post I will share some pictures of two very unique and beautiful flying insects, namely a carpenter bee and a flower beetle. This is a very fun activity and very challenging, it is not easy to do it but also not too difficult. Today, some of my friends and I went back into the oil palm plantation which is not too far from my house, my friend was busy with his activities, namely harvesting oil palm fruit while I was busy looking for interesting objects to photograph.
As the name suggests, this bee has an important bond with wood, this bee has a unique habit of making holes in wood to make its nest so that sometimes this nature is very disturbing to humans. As a village child, I can still find many houses that are still made using wood, and this bee is one of the causes of damage to these wooden houses, this bee will not hesitate to make holes in the walls of houses made of wood to make its nest, and the holes made by this bee can also be seen because of their size as big as marbles.
This bee will bore holes in wood that is still dry and unpainted, so many residents in my village choose to paint their houses to avoid the risk of being drilled by this bee.However, bees are still bees, just like most bees in general, this bee still drinks flower nectar as its main food source.
Accidentally when I was cutting one of the plants, suddenly I was surprised by an insect flying towards me, at first I thought it was a wasp so it made me a little panicked at that time, after I noticed it turned out that this was a flower beetle whose existence is very rare in my area, especially in my village,this beetle flew not too far from me and then landed on another wild plant
Its size is relatively larger for a beetle, its color is also very beautiful especially if we look at it from the top, there is an orange color on the top of its wings and it is a pretty beautiful color combination.
The good news is that this beetle is very docile and can even be touched, but still, this beetle managed to fly several times to other plants. This was an opportunity that I did not want to waste, I photographed this beetle using a macro lens and I tried to photograph it from various different angles.
