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There were at least 15 on our bean plants.

Mating pair.

@sambiology, can you, please, add Buprestis decora?

https://bugguide.net/node/view/56301

http://texasento.net/TXBuprestidae.htm

Multiple individuals, primarily, or solely, male

Multiple females

Female

length estimate 5.5-6.8 mm
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1597499/bgimage

This landed on my leg. I shook it off and took a few photos. It seemed disoriented. It would only walk across the ground. Just a straight line heading into the woods.

This is a neat little creek -- will have to come back here and investigate some more! :)

Surrounded by hundreds of tiny black beetles

male