Eudicella gralli

The Flamboyant flower beetle or striped love beetle as it is sometimes called is a brightly colored member of the scarab beetle family. Their shells seem to have a prismatic quality, refracting the ambient light to give the green of their carapace a rainbow tint. The adults reach a size to about one and half inches. The males have a “Y” shaped horn to fight over females. The females have a shovel-like tusk to burrow into wood. They were considered sacred by ancient Egyptians and used in jewelry.