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Scary Bug!!!! :o
« on: June 10, 2011, 23:02:58 »
This is the second one of these ive found in my greenhouse, the first one was alive.




It HUGE!! its about an inch and a qurter long and half an inch wide.

Does anyone know what it is ?
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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2011, 23:06:56 »
It is one of the chafer beetles. The largest of the type...Cockchafer.

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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2011, 23:17:09 »
Ahhhhhhh thanks

I googled it.

So thats whats been eating the leaves on my rhubard seedlings in the greenhouse.

The little bugger.......
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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2011, 07:38:53 »
"little"   ;D   More like 'whale in a fish tank'...They are very impressive looking though..I've only seen few in my whole life.

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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 08:00:16 »
I think our girls would soon gobble one of those up

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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2011, 08:24:37 »
We get them in great abundance round here, usually during May, hence their other name - Maybugs. Their legs are like velcro & stick to you & are quite horrid although harmless, they are attracted to light & only seem to appear at night & sound like a motorbike.

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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2011, 08:33:11 »
In Suffolk, these are known as 'billy witches'

Found two (one still alive) in my kitchen in the morning a couple of weeks ago, think they'd got in the previous evening when we'd had the door open.

 We are also getting stag beetles around now, picked up a live female one on the road outside a few days ago and relocated it to the allotment wildlife area for safety and a couple of friends mdntioned they seen them about

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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2011, 09:22:46 »
if earwigs climb in your ears when you're asleep, what on earth do cockchafers get up to?  :o

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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2011, 11:09:47 »
 ;D I get all sorts of thought coming to my head while digging..but your mind beats me.. ::) ;D

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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2011, 11:19:36 »
We get them in great abundance round here, usually during May, hence their other name - Maybugs. Their legs are like velcro & stick to you & are quite horrid although harmless, they are attracted to light & only seem to appear at night & sound like a motorbike.

lol, the first one flew off, i live near where the Battle of Britain Memorial flight Lancaster Bomber is parked up, it sounded the same as it droned past, the wings must only be doing about 150 rpm    ;D
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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2011, 11:27:14 »
if earwigs climb in your ears when you're asleep, what on earth do cockchafers get up to?  :o

Have you been inhaling Miraclegro again...it really sn't wise :P
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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2011, 12:58:00 »
I know them as May Bugs.  They are extremely stupid and fly round bumping into things.  They fly into the glass of the patio windows and give us quite a shock.  They are only beetles for a relatively short time and spent most of the time below ground munching on roots.   It takes several years of munching to produce the beetle.

I have never quite understood how they manage to find a mate quickly enough. 

The grubs are very destructive.

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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2011, 10:22:04 »
Great minds think alike Bugloss.     :P
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Re: Scary Bug!!!! :o
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2011, 16:34:36 »
if earwigs climb in your ears when you're asleep, what on earth do cockchafers get up to?  :o

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« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2011, 17:46:21 »
I hit one once when ridign a motorcycle.... one side of my goggles disappeared in gloop and I felt like I'd been punched.... had a black eye for a couple of weeks.....

The grubs are very destructive, massive magotty thing with an armoured head and jaws that eats roots of everythign.... trouble can be telling them from some of the predatory beetle larvae.... most of the rove beetles (liek the Devil's Coach Horse) have a larvae that is a sort of maggoty back-end combined with some serious jaws and a set of proper insect front legs.... and they eat bugs.....

There si a nematode for them in the mixed pack from Nemasys....

 

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