The Beautiful Pest. The Japanese Beetle.  Ever look at one of these...before you crushed it?  Please, let's look a little closer. Inspect the color scheme. Our model here presents an unclothed shredding of blue and green metallic analogous colors that delightfully contrast with the complementary red on its elytra; that red neutralized enough so as to not compete with the vibrant metallic glow. There are mirrors here, see a delicious bronze sunset fade to the rear of the pronotum only to tip the color wheel, pouring a green river down the center of the elytra to meld into the serene polyglot of purple, green, and blue abdominal segments. Such color merriment is celebrated with a set of mysterious and equally spaced white hair patches; Kabbalistically esoteric as befitting a member of the sacred scarab family. Golden means and french curves revel across the body creating the small gasp and intake felt when strength and sensuality clasp - just so, while within these lines the inverse braille of peened pits invites our eye to both wander and concentrate. Yes, its destruction is inevitable, but so is the ultimate rise of this phoenix.
