"It's a dogbane leaf beetle," he said, snapping it up between his hands. "It's one of the most gorgeous beetles there is. You could make jewelry out of this, ladies," he said to me and Maria McCalley, ...

Iridescent emerald, the color intense and glistening as a freshly polished car hood, adorned the back of a beetle munching on the slender leaf of a tall plant with red stems next to the bike trail. I ...