thats simply a-ma-zing!!! I'd love to feed this army with my late apples (often we have almost none, hehe) xD
your beetle appears slightly different.
that is quite legit. again, as wiki states, this beetle has a lot of design varieties: intraspecific diversity in coloration is very high; 7 subspecies are known, which differ in area, body integument sculpture and coloration. In turn, within the subspecies, many aberrations are distinguished, which differ from each other in color and the presence or absence of hairs in certain parts of the body. (wiki)