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12-05-2009, 06:12 PM
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| | | Rose Chaffer on Choisya
About ten years ago I planted a Choisya (Mexican Orange blossom) primarily for its blossom's scent. The range of insect feeders has been quite limited although a number of fly species are attracted, as well as some hoverflies and and several sawfly species plus both large and small white butterflies.
This year however the bush has become the focus of several Rose Chaffers (Cetonia aurata) which fly up from the plant, make several broad circuits and then return to rest or feed from the flowers. 
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12-05-2009, 06:43 PM
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| | | Re: Rose Chaffer on Choisya
They are awesome little critters! I was in a park last year when I saw my first one, it was like a big flying jewel! 
The friends I was with concluded I was 'very wierd and needed to get a boyfriend soon' when I asked one of them to try and get a photo of it for me (it flew onto fence that my wheelchair couldn't get to). Been itching to see one ever since  .
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| | | Re: Rose Chaffer on Choisya
It may be a genetic thing but everyone in my family smells Choisya as cats' p ..... Perhaps that's why it attracts insects? | | |
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