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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Scarlet malachite beetle\u00a0Malachius aeneus<\/em>, a beautiful red and green insect found on just eight sites in the UK, emerges from its winter hibernation at the beginning of May.<\/p>\n It will live in the fields and hedgerows for just over a month, before disappearing for another year. The beetle is found mainly in Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hampshire, although it was once found in counties across the south and east of england.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Over the past couple of years you have helped to find four new sites for the beetle, ensuring that this charismatic little animal has a rosier future. This year we hope for more new sightings. To find out more about what you need to do to take part in the survey\u00a0click here<\/a>. If you think that you have seen the beetle, please contact us at\u00a0scarlet.malachite@buglife.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The Scarlet malachite beetle\u00a0Malachius aeneus, a beautiful red and green insect found on just eight sites in the UK, emerges from its winter hibernation at the beginning of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[7,12,10,14,11,8,9,6,13],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-insects","category-surveys","tag-beetle","tag-buglife","tag-fields","tag-habitat","tag-hedgerows","tag-malachius-aeneus","tag-red","tag-scarlet-malachite","tag-survey","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This May and June Buglife is asking the public to take part in their new survey.<\/h2>\n