I found one of these “little” guys on my deck tonight.
It was clinging onto the plastic support for my hanging planter where I planted some petunias. Very pretty. Of course I touched it with a leaf and it fell off. I quickly came to my senses and it grabbed back onto the leaf and I put it back. Which...led me to this site to identify it.

So glad to finally be able to identify! Found one in Gallatin, TN about 3 years ago! Absolutely gorgeous. When I found it, I brought it home with me in a different city in TN and every year, it comes out during summer.

Moving rotting tree trunk rounds, I have found dozens of the larvae but today found three of these large beetles still burrowed in the wood. They range in color from more beige to the same as above - a bit orange?

I thought they were spectacular - and they are. Nature has given us such beauty. What are we doing with it?

Found it on the front porch, not near anything resembling grapes. Quite an urban neighborhood, just outside of Boston. But there are some neighbors who have a trellis and vines on some blocks nearby.


The ants are trying to abscond with the carcass.

I found one of these beetles hanging out on one of the leaves of a beet plant in my vegetable garden. This is a new one for me. I had to bring it in and identify. Thanks for the picture.

One of these beetles flew into my house after flying around my porch light last night in Southern WV. My kids and I studied this beetle for a while. The red antennae came out as we watched it; they pronged at the ends with three very small strands - so neat!

I just found one of these on a grape leaf in northern New York. It's July and they've eaten about 1/4 of the leaves down to the bones. But honestly I'd rather have the beetles than the leaves. :-)

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My co-worker just found one of these outside our office building at McGill University, at the foot of Mount Royal, Peel and Pine(I tried to insert a Map here but the page wouldn't allow it.)

Found one of these flying around my apartment at 1:30 am what a noise maker..LOL is this a little far north for these little critters?

Had one of these awsome bettles on me screen door last nite.. I have to say it was a very interesting betttle

Had one on my screen door last nite in Newport,Mi..

Found one of these guys on my moonflower vines, I live in West Mifflin, Pa. Does anyone know if they will eat the plants?, they are just budding out and I sure would like to see some of the flowers.

Find these awesome insects clinging to my screens in the month of June. My son finally held one a saw that they are harmless. I live in York, Pa. and have no grapeleaves in the vicinity but I'm glad they visit.

We just found the same beetle on our back screen door, we live in Crest Hill, IL. It was huge when we went to check it out it took off into a hole in the cement. It was the biggest beetle I've seen alive in this area, interesting.

Just found on on my screen door in Batavia, Illinois! I have never seen one before before until about 5 minutes ago. I was dying to know what it was so I googled 'yellow beetle black dots' and ended up on this site. Extremely interesting if you ask me.

The overwhelmingly beautiful and bee full rose bush has a few Japanese beetles and I got five of these today. In Massachusetts!

My neighbors have grapevines, but I have never seen one of these ever, until yesterday. I live in Southern Lancaster County, PA. Mine was clinging, dead, to my hedge, which I was in the middle of trimming. Identical to the one pictured, except the legs were lighter in color - a reddish brown - as opposed to black. The body also appeared to be a slightly more tan color, but the difference could be due to lighting or hue in the photo.

Just found one in my backyard in Berkley, MI.

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I just found one of these beetles on the back steps of the house. I had tossed a few grapes out the back door just a few days ago, and now look who came to visit. This is the first one I've seen here in Indiana.

We picked one of these large beetles off the grapevines in the yard. I don't remember seeing one before, but I couldn't miss it!

Just found my first one here in Westland, Michigan. I have no grape vines around anywhere, mine is a little more tan color. But it has the spots just yours.

Last year my neighbor was digging around a rotting silver maple stump. She came across some grubs, and immediately called me. I dug up about 40 of them to feed to my pet turtle (Carolina triunguis). Before she could eat them all, they metamorphosed into adults. This year I took only what my turtle could eat. Now I know what they are. Thank you Bug Guide.

I laughed when I saw the photo and location (Jim Thorpe,PA). Spotted this crawling up the deck just 'up the road' in Gibson, Pa, Aug 24 '08. I'm a bug boy, but never saw this one before. No (or very few) grapes around: Beech, Hemlock, Sugar Maple, Raspberry, Elderberry. Nice pic ... easy ID. Thanks

I'm in a Southwest suburb of Chicago and woke up to one of these on my screen door. No grapevines around here so maybe just hangin' out. Thanks for the picture though. I've been searching the internet for about an hour and glad I finally have a name.

I recently found 2 of these in my pussy willow tree (1 was slightly bigger than 1 inch and the other was about 3/4"). Never seen them before in our garden and we've been here for 35 years! No grapevines in sight. Thanks for the great photo - I've been trying to identify for hours. It just so happens that the same tree is infested with what looks like 'grape flea beetles'. (Small blackish green metallic beetles.) They are skeletanizing our leaves. Any suggestions on how to control?

I live in Chicago, found three eating in grapevines attached to my tree out back. I have an excellent photo frontal view of it on the leaf.

We just found another one in South Milwaukee. Not near any plants tho. It was upside down but still alive. Really cool looking.

we found one of these in my yard on lake huron in northeast michigan.

We found one in South Milwaukee,just to let you know

My son just brought one of these (long dead) in and wondered what is was, other than "cool" of course. Thanks to this site we now know. It was found on the sidewalk near some hostas on the far southwest side of Chicago...not a grapevine for miles! Maybe they eat grape-looking house ivy?

I was just out picking dozens of little black/green beetles off my grapevine for the second year in a row, and was startled to find three mating pairs of these! I scooped two into a tupperware and brought them in hoping to identify them. This picture is exactly them! Thanks! Now - should I worry about them devouring the grape? I wish they would scare away those smaller beetles! St Paul, MN, July 11, 2008.

In found one of these on my back porch this evening in northeastern CT July 26th 2007. I don't recall seeing them before this year. We have a lot of grapevines that grow through the tree-line behind my house so this makes sense.

I just found two of these on my way overgrown Concord grape. Do they damage the vine?

Yet another example of the dark legs on the northern ones. Lovely shot, too. Do you have a date for it? So far we only have a July report for PA.