Green Protea Beetle is a pretty, medium-sized metallic-green Scarab beetle (Scarabaeidae) belonging to the Fruit Beetle subfamily (Cetoniinae). These beetles will feed on various fruits and flowers, but these particularly favour the flowers of Protea shrub. They burrow deep within the flowers, munching the pollen and sucking up nectar. While doing this, pollen sticks to their bright-orange hairy stomachs! They are clumsy flyers, creating a loud buzz when in flight between plants.