On the early morning of my general test day about half a year ago, I saw this beautiful beetle right outside our lab building. When I was taking pictures for it, boss came up and got excited about it too. Then he told me it might be a tiger beetle. It is so amazing that its back is shining green with blue and red rings on its neck. Even the legs are decorated with blue/purple. It was running so fast that my phone camera cannot follow it up so that is why the beetle in the picture is not in focus. In fact, it is about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. The whole body is charming shining. I dare not deprive it from the nature so several pictures were the only record about it in my hand.
Later, when I try to confirm its identity, I found that it was too large to be a tiger beetle. Usually, tiger (top: tigers, bottom: leopards) beetles are half an inch long and they have big eyes on the head. Also, most of them are of uniform color on back. But look at this guy, it was 2 inches long and colorful on his back. I cannot name it to my knowledge. Just call it leopard beetle for now because I think leopards is much more pretty than tigers!
Don't be disappointed by my cell phone camera - it is actually much much more beautiful than it appears in the picture.
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