For the time being, have a look at my
Portia Tree page for the story on
these beetles and more pictures of them. I'm planning to take my better
camera to where I found them for close-up photos of the bugs
themselves, and I'll update this page with those hopefully more detailed
photographs in a week or so. I guess I'll have to make a red beetle page
now too, because at first I thought they were more closely related to
Milkweed beetles. It took me a while to figure out that they're
Dysdercus andreae.