I'm a little confused by what's going on with this, but I appreciate it not being "frassed" so quickly. Thanks.

While this image is nice and sharp, the beetle is not fully visible. We have lots of these easily recognizable guys, and we don't need to compete with the honey bees(-:
I thought the guide pages are there to scroll through look for a fit, if one knows pretty much the subfamily or genus but not the exact species. This becomes a very slow process if some species are so strongly represented (the sluggishness of the BG web page contributes to the frustration).
If the image is a new BG-state record, it should also be kept for the data point (I think I checked that before I committed the offense).
Another reason to keep it would be if it is an interesting, not yet represented color morph - but this one is already well represented on our more than 6 pages

While this image is nice and sharp, the beetle is not fully visible. We have lots of these easily recognizable guys, and we don't need to compete with the honey bees(-:
I thought the guide pages are there to scroll through look for a fit, if one knows pretty much the subfamily or genus but not the exact species. This becomes a very slow process if some species are so strongly represented (the sluggishness of the BG web page contributes to the frustration).
If the image is a new BG-state record, it should also be kept for the data point (I think I checked that before I committed the offense).

I didn't have time yet to put it in the right place.

I didn't know we had such a thing in this part of Texas. Thanks!!

It looked similar to a Morning Glory vine, but perhaps it really is a Milkweed Vine. I will check tomorrow.

The guide says they eat all of these things.

"Foliage, flowers, of milkweed, esp. Swamp Milkeed, Asclepias incarnata, but also found on Common Milkeed, Asclepias syriaca. Also on Cynanchum and Sarcostemma"

It looks to me like all these mentioned are Milkweed of one kind or another. The vine this beetle was on...and eating...is a Morning Glory vine...."Ipomoea" of some kind.