A Tumbling Flower Beetle, Mordellidae (maybe), Thanks to the Magic of Digital Zoom

This may be a good example of a tumbling flower beetle. That’s because this one tumbles, a family characteristic. At this very nonce, thousands of these tiny tumblers are fixing to tumble around on the primrose, verbena and oxalis blossoms. Fixing to, because they shall wait until it warms up. Actually, a few of them may be tumbling about, for all I know, right now.

My sister took the picture. Crumby identified this beetle to family, maybe. I am interested because there are so many. Like I say, a great many, many, many, many. Too many to count. A tousand or maybe two tousand.

According to Rayetta, they do their best tumbling right before a girl tries to take their picture. The one depicted, according to Rayetta, is probably weary. Yes weary. Worn out from a long day of tumbling.