A relatively recent immigrant, this scarab beetle feeds on decaying material as larvae. As an adult, it is a pollen feeder. A fairly good flyer, it sounds like a carpenter bee in flight.
Proteatia orientalis, the oriental flower beetle
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A relatively recent immigrant, this scarab beetle feeds on decaying material as larvae. As an adult, it is a pollen feeder. A fairly good flyer, it sounds like a carpenter bee in flight.