Another type of beetle that I found on flowering bushes, the Bidens Alba type, is a bluish-black type of beetle or known as the Southern Carpenter Bee, scientifically known as Xylocopa micans. To draw a photo of this type of beetle species I had to wait a while and every time I pointed my cell phone camera this beetle flew away, perhaps feeling threatened.
Location Bogor Regency, West Java Indonesia
Date 02-10-2025
ID 261224632
IDUU 4a6df4e0-454c-491f-8957-4dac9552a6e8
Original link https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/261224632
The patience to wait for the right moment to target the Xylocopa micans beetle finally arrived and while continuing to move slowly closer to the beetle perched on a Bidens Alba flower, I finally managed to get a bluish black beetle.
This beetle, whose entire body is black and whose back and wings are shiny blue, looks very beautiful and romantic when perched on a flower. That is part of the task of beetles and flowers which have established a mutually beneficial relationship or symbiotic mutualism.