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Can anyone identify this insect that flew into my neighbours house this morning.
We at first thought it was a bee, now we are not so sure.
It is in a matchbox, which might give some idea of size, otherwise I sorry about the quality of the pictures.
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No piccy nippie.

Its a frog !

Ah sorry the link didn't work  ::) try again.
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Quote from: Riffster on July 19, 2007, 16:22:11
Its a frog !

;D ;D ::)

Oh, my mistake - its not a frog !

Quote from: Riffster on July 19, 2007, 16:25:14
Oh, my mistake - its not a frog !

Soooooooooooo what is it?????? :D

My OH reckons its a may bug    http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th11e(12).htm

Thats what I said, but it's a bit late in the year really.
Mind you, this year anything could happen  ::)
Thanks for the link anyway.

riffster you took the words right out of my mouth i reckon its a may bug too

Maybe it's a July bug  ;D

thingy chafer, I was just seing how the word was moderated

dash it ACE you beat me to it.
c o c k chafer.......

woohoo - first time past the censor!

...and if you have a dead one, it means you probably have lots of eggs underground, dunno what they eat, but they are big ugly spuds before they mature, so I guess they must do some damage........

yep, it's a may bug.
we get HUNDREDS of them flying round the oak tree by our garden, I think they eat the tender new leaves.
last year was a bumper year but this year they've been late and not so many of them.
they have a big mating frenzy then plummet to the ground to die  â€" they were bouncing off my car bonnet last year!
this year we have a pair of blackbrids who've wised up to the free meal which spend the evenings performing aerial acrobatics trying to catch them ;D
if you dig up the grubs they're quite scary: huge white fat things with big brown heads... <shudder>

I've always called those cockshafers, but it's just an alternate name. We used to go on holiday in Herefordshire when I was a kid, and they were always flying into the caravan.

This is a pupa of the Cockchafer otherwise known as the May Bug.  I dug quite a few up from my garden. 

Definately a Cockchafer......or most commonly known as a May Bug.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I will let my neighbour know.

What was the problem with the censor then?  :o :-[ ;) ;D

The censor is a load of thingy