August 2015. A jewel beetle was caught in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Is it Belionota preasina?

A member from Israel wrote that some jewel beetles are wood boring with larvae burrowing into and degrading trees and timber. Belionota prasina is reported on mango, Hopea, Terminalia, etc; other species eat nectar, and some eat leaves or stems. The writer mentioned that a species in Australia was reported trying to mate with a bump on a green beer bottle that was thrown on the side of the road. Canadian entomologist William George Evans reported that some have infrared receptors that can detect a forest fire up to 50 miles away!