At least two beetles are known as the rose chafer:

Noble chafer, which can be very similar to the rose chafer.

One of the most familiar species is the rose chafer (C. aurata).

As a member of the order Coleoptera, the rose chafer undergoes complete metamorphosis during its development.

The eggs of the rose chafer are about 1 mm in length and are oval, white and shiny.

By chewing on plant tissues, the rose chafer induces the release of volatile compounds from the plant.

It is given its common name of rose chafer because it eats the leaves of roses, although it also feeds on many other plants.

Rose chafer Cetonia aurata, some life cycle photos.

Photos of Rose chafer - Cetonia aurata and other flower beetles.

Rose Chafer images on "BugGuide.net"

It is one of at least two beetles in this family known as the "rose chafer", the other being the European Cetonia aurata.

Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer.

Cetonia aurata is not to be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus.

Eupoecila australasiae, commonly known as the fiddler beetle or rose chafer, is a colourful green- or yellow-and-black member of the scarab beetle family from eastern Australia.

However one quick way to identify them is to look at their scutellum: on the noble chafer is an equilateral triangle but on the rose chafer is an isosceles triangle.

Rose chafer (Order Coleoptera : Family Scarabaeidae) Macrodactylus subspinosus - The rose chafer is common to North America, and emerges in late May to mid June.

Her devotion to the garden once prompted Miss Ferriday to admit, "In the midst of the delights of Paris, I would stop to wonder if the rose bugs were under control, or how the new regale lilies were doing."

The cetonia aurata pulls the feet inside of the legs and push them out if it is needed.

Rose chafer Cetonia aurata, some life cycle photos.

Photos of Rose chafer - Cetonia aurata and other flower beetles.

Cetonia aurata and its circularly polarized reflections (both left and right hand.)

It is one of at least two beetles in this family known as the "rose chafer", the other being the European Cetonia aurata.

Article on 'drunken beetles', not Cetonia aurata though.

Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer.

Cetonia aurata is not to be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus.

La Cétoine Dorée (Cetonia aurata) (Coléoptère Cetoniidae)

These massive solitary wasps dig in search of larvae of beetles (Cetoniidae species, especially Cetonia aurata, as well as Scarabaeidae species).

In his book Synchronicity (1952), Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung tells this story, starring a Cetonia aurata, as an example of a synchronic event:

It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeud beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which, contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.