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Today Bumble Flower Beetles, AKA Brown Fruit Chafers (Euphoria inda) emerged. According to Kaufman's Guide to Insects of North America these beetles overwinter as adults and emerge early in the spring.
Their noisy zig-zagging low level flight patterns resembles that of Bumbles Bees and accounts for one of their common names. At this time of year they feed on nectar and pollen. Rotten fruit is their late season fare, thus their other common name of Fruit Chafer.
And an occasional Dandelion is adding its touch of sunshine to the growing fields.
John

Bumble Flower Beetle