Her green dress, shimmering with blue-green light ... “Especially with the humans, we expected a result one way or the other: either that [the glossy beetles] would blend in or stand out more.” But ...

And it seemed only the biga (scientific name: Alocasia macrorrhizos) was victimized among my hundreds of species of plants. When I looked more closely, I saw the culprits, shiny blue-green beetles ...