I am not, in all honesty, a beetle expert, and while this might sound a tad maudlin, I don't think I have time in this life to become one. So be it.  But there are at least a handful of Coleopterans that I'm pretty near on a first-name basis with, and this handsome specimen, which I found by the kitchen porch lights, is definitely one of them. The Grapevine Beetle, which I learned as the Spotted Pelidnota—the Latin name's Pelidnota punctata—is a large yellowish to reddish-brown member of family Scarabaeidae, and it shows up reliably in the evenings beginning around midsummer. With its eight dark spots and its leaflike terminal antennomeres, P. punctata is distinctive and pretty easy to identify—thank you, Art Evans—and it's also quite accommodating about taking sufficient time away from the grape vines it enjoys by day to visit our lights and stay in position long enough for identification and photo purposes. Would that all insects were so easy.