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==Donating to the Museum==
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As with all insects in the {{SER}}, the Jewel Beetle can be donated to the [[Museum]] by talking to [[Blathers]], who will give a small speech on it.
 
As with all insects in the {{SER}}, the Jewel Beetle can be donated to the [[Museum]] by talking to [[Blathers]], who will give a small speech on it.
  

Revision as of 13:46, July 8, 2020

"Wow! It's a...jewel beetle! It's gorgeous! (I wonder how much I can get for it...)" —Animal Crossing (GCN)
"I caught a jewel beetle! Look at that sparkle!" —Wild World
"I caught a jewel beetle! Ooh... Sparkly!" —City Folk
"I caught a jewel beetle! A real diamond in the rough!" —New Leaf

Jewel Beetle
Artwork of Jewel Beetle
Real-world info
Name: Chrysochroa fulgidissima
Family: Buprestidae - Jewel Beetles
Main appearances

Other appearances
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The Jewel Beetle (タマムシ, Tamamushi) is a small, greenish insect found on the front of trees in all games up to and including New Leaf, but on tree stumps in New Horizons. It appears all day in New Horizons, but could only be found in the morning and early afternoon in the previous games.

Catch details

Wild World

64px    ''Birds hate their coloring."
  • Size- 35 mm
  • Season- Summer
  • Time- Afternoon

City Folk

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New Leaf


In Pocket Camp

#7

Jewel beetle

Event availability None
Location Sunburst Island
Size 31.7 mm - 38.2 mm
Rarity ★★★
Catch rate Cannot be caught at this time.
Selling price  2,500 Bells
Request reward  1,500 Bells
3 Heart PC Icon.png Friendship Points
Fortune Cookie (20%), Bronze Treats (30%)


New Horizons

#45

Jewel beetle
"I caught a jewel beetle! It's a real gem!"

Time of year North: Apr – Aug
South: Oct – Feb
Time of day All day
Location On tree stumps
Weather Any except rain
Spawn requirement Catch 20 total bugs
Selling prices  Nook's Cranny 2,400 Bells
 Flick 3,600 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


Donating to the museum

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Jewel Beetle can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech on it.

In Animal Crossing

Blathers speech is as follows:

"The incredible jewel-like iridescence, it's so... So very... It's just so very... nauseating. Yes, that's it."

In Wild World

"I am a nocturnal creature, so this color is rather a bit too bright for me...There's also the fact that I abhor bugs to consider. Blech! Loathsome thing..."

In City Folk

Blathers speech is as follows:

"The Japanese name for the jewel beetle inspired their word for iridescence. Makes sense, I suppose... Since the beetles keep their color after death, it's said their bodies were worn as jewelry long ago. Do you suppose they left the legs and antennae on the bodies when they wore them? ...Blech."

The Jewel Beetle can be found in the top-most section of the Museum, to the far left, on the same tree as the Rainbow Stag (the tree closest to the light on that side).

In New Leaf

Upon donation to the museum, the Jewel Beetle can be found in the upper right room of the Insect section. The exhibit has this to say about the Jewel Beetle:

"Jewel beetles are very pretty insects that show a red line on their green bodies when refracting light. They're so pretty that it's believed people used them for craftwork a long time ago. Their shiny wings are easy to notice, but birds have a hard time targeting them. This is because birds aren't very good at seeing things that change color in different lights."

In New Horizons

"The green shimmer of the jewel beetle's wings is nothing short of nauseating...yes? No? Well, so says you. Though...jewel beetles were once prized by collectors who turned their iridescent wings into pretty jewelry. Why anyone would want to wear bug parts on their body is beyond me. Fashion foul indeed."

Further Information

File:Real Jewel Beetle.jpg
A real life jewel beetle

The beetle (Chrysochroa fulgidissima) is a buprestid native to Japan and is known as Tamamushi in Japanese. Due to its iridescence, the true color of the bug can be difficult to determine, which is the basis of the expression tamamushi-iro in Japanese. It is used to refer to vague or unclear statements given by a politician. Metallic colors in beetles may not be due to pigments but rather how the structure of surface of the exoskeleton refracts light. These features have on rare occasions been preserved in fossils, some as old as 50 million years, as explained here.


Names in other languages

Japanese タマムシ
tamamushi
Jewel beetle

Korean 비단벌레
bidanbeolle
Jewel beetle

Simplified Chinese 吉丁虫
jídīngchóng
Jewel beetle

Traditional Chinese 吉丁蟲
Unknown

Russian Златка
Zlatka
Jewel beetle

Dutch Prachtkever Jewel beetle

German Prachtkäfer Jewel beetle (lit. "splendor beetle")

European Spanish Escarabajo joya "Jewel beetle"

European French Bupreste From Buprestidae, the family to which these belong

Italian Stigmodera A specific genus of jewel beetle


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