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Votes cast for the 2 best pic's which best describes the title;


2nd was pic 2 from Alex with 11 votes. The WINNER this time is TOADSPAWN with 12 votes for pic 4.
Congratulations to these two very close run entries and many thanks to those who participated and voted.
Ken
Pic's count from left to right. Comments on here too, please.

Comments here, please.
Thanks to all who posted pic's.
Ken.

wish I'd got a pic of the rat that ran out on saturday, i'd've entered it, too  ;D

Photo 2 looks photoshop'd - perhaps just the light?!?!

what are the beetles in no.1? i don't recognise them, what's their crime?

Quote from: thifasmom on October 20, 2008, 09:53:13
what are the beetles in no.1? i don't recognise them, what's their crime?

Performing a lewd act in a public place?!?!  :o

Quote from: OllieC on October 20, 2008, 10:16:52

Quote from: thifasmom on October 20, 2008, 09:53:13
what are the beetles in no.1? i don't recognise them, what's their crime?

Performing a lewd act in a public place?!?!  :o

LOL ;D

Quote from: thifasmom on October 20, 2008, 09:53:13
what are the beetles in no.1? i don't recognise them, what's their crime?

They are garden chafers phyllopertha horticola.  They stripped all the leaves from my newly planted birches, ornamental trees and fruit trees. 

LOL at Ollie.   ;D ;D

What a disappointment in the number of entries for this competition.  I could have submitted pictures of nettles, bindweed, dock, cabbage white butterfly, pigeons, cats, to name but a few......the list could go on and on.

Quote from: Paulines7 on October 20, 2008, 14:13:41

Quote from: thifasmom on October 20, 2008, 09:53:13
what are the beetles in no.1? i don't recognise them, what's their crime?

They are garden chafers phyllopertha horticola.  They stripped all the leaves from my newly planted birches, ornamental trees and fruit trees. 

LOL at Ollie.   ;D ;D

What a disappointment in the number of entries for this competition.  I could have submitted pictures of nettles, bindweed, dock, cabbage white butterfly, pigeons, cats, to name but a few......the list could go on and on.

thanks for the info about the bugs. i also thought we would have seen loads of pics of things people didnot want on their plot, hey ho! :-\

  Are the chafer bugs the ones that leave thier lava in the soil, they eat plant roots    >:(
  and when developed - they are the most revolting, fat, cream coloured - brown head one end
  curved into a gross shape of purple ' lump' at the other end ?   :P

   - don't like those   :-\

Yuk !  to all of them !! lol

Hey photo 2 looks a little 'tampered with' !

  I think the slug in no3 pic is not well  --  worse than that  ----   he may be ---  dead !   :'(

  Won't someone do something   :o

They all get joint first place.  All unwanted ;D ;D

Quote from: FLOSSY on October 20, 2008, 16:54:50


  Are the chafer bugs the ones that leave thier lava in the soil, they eat plant roots    >:(
  and when developed - they are the most revolting, fat, cream coloured - brown head one end
  curved into a gross shape of purple ' lump' at the other end ?   :P

   - don't like those   :-\

I don't know what the larva look like but they evidently do bury themselves in the ground and eat roots.  I had to pick them all off by hand and the Department of Agriculture said to keep the grass short around the trees.  Next year I will be looking for them in late May and pick them off before they reduce the leaves on my trees to skeletons again.

The Garden Chafer is also known as a June Bug.

Thanks Paulines7,

  Found loads of these larva in the soil while digging out a bank, had had a few mysterious
  plant losses from nearby -and found them rootless !

  Have voted for them as they are a bit  ' unseen '  slugs are more in your face  --  or under foot.

Winner is Taodspawn with pic 4 and 12 votes.
Congratulations and thanks for your entry.

Ken.

    Congratulations Toadspawn,   was a superb pic too

     floss

Well done Toadspawn your picture would have been my choice if I had not entered the competition.

...........and yes my picture was 'photo shopped' well spotted.

The reason I did it was; I had a picture each of a slug and a snail and could not decide on which one to use so I cooked the books ::)