These beetles look ridiculous. They are everywhere in the wetland, however, and I suspect they are feeding on my water hyacinth. I have found a few papers on the use of two weevil species as a biocontrol for Eichhornia, but I haven’t keyed this species out. Although this one was being blown across the water by the wind, I have seen many on my Eichhornia.
He looks like Snufalophagus from Seasame Street (the elephant esque wolly mammmoth creature). Yeah, they are funny. Aren’t they phototaxic? lol.
It looks like a robot bug, kinda metallic looking. Of course, I recently saw the new transformers movie.