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youngros Madeira, Portugal May 27, 2020

This beetle is described as eating anything fleshy! This is in Madeira but could be an introduced beetle. Hope someone can identify it. Thanks.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND May 27, 2020

It looks like Oxythyrea funesta, a common scarab beetle known as the white spotted rose beetle.
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youngros Madeira, Portugal May 28, 2020

Thank you. That certainly looks like it.

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