Green Beetle (Manuka)

Don't file this one with the dusk beetles above — it behaves quite differently. The manuka beetle falls through the day rather than at last light, a bright green beetle dropping steadily out of bush and scrub-lined cover on any warm afternoon from November into February, without needing a single dramatic evening to make it worth carrying. It's less an event to wait for than a dependable searching fly: the one to try when nothing else is hatching and you just need something to prospect the water with. Still earns a slot in the box — just for a different reason than its dusk-flying cousin above.

• New ZealandPresent

Pyronota festiva , commonly known as mānuka beetle or mānuka chafer , is a member of the Scarabaeidae family of beetles (Coleoptera) in the genus Pyronota . It is a scarab beetle endemic to New Zealand, and is commonly found in mānuka trees ( Leptospermum scoparium ), hence the beetle's name. In some areas it is considered a pasture pest.