Metallic Green (Dogbane) Beetle on leaf.

Do you know the species? This is a very small beetle, about 1/2"

body length. Thanks for your comments!

How did you manage to get so clean a shot? Can you provide any technical info about the shot?

Sorry still new to this web site. I just read your details about the shot. Very nice.

There are something along the lines of 30,000 species of beetles in North America, and I can only recognize a handful, so normally I wouldn't hazard a guess. But this one actually looks familiar (what are the odds?). If that's a dogbane leaf it's crawling on, chances are pretty good this is a dogbane beetle (Chrysochus sp.). Nice shot!

Raymond, glad you found the details section. Unfortunately many photos here on photo.net don't have much in the way of technical details listed. I try to always put something in there as I like to see the details of other people's work!

 

David, I have to find one of the slides where I can see more of the leaf to be sure what it was. Thanks for the potential ID!

 

Thank you both for the compliments!

After some research, My unscientific eye thinks that yes, this is a dogbane leaf!