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Mags
23-05-2009, 12:10 PM
I found this monster chap in the garden this morning, does anyone recognise it?

It made no attempt to fly away..

It measures approx 4cms or 1.5 inches in length......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Mags40/Garden/DSCF0415.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Mags40/Garden/DSCF0406.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Mags40/Garden/DSCF0407.jpg
pookyandjo
23-05-2009, 02:29 PM
sorry... can't help on that score... but i do like the way that you trained him (?) to sit still whilst you took the picture.... ;)
ShorthairMartin
23-05-2009, 02:38 PM
1.5"... thats a beast!!!
calismum
23-05-2009, 02:39 PM
Great pics

Cockchafer?



http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/showimage.php?i=32719&c=

http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/envhealth/pests/maybug.htm

Certainly a big boy tho'
Mags
23-05-2009, 03:31 PM
Ahh....thanks CM :D I think that's the same as was discussed in a post last week.......... it's the first time I've seen one of those!:lol:
janey83
23-05-2009, 04:03 PM
Ewww mingin!!!
dandysmom
23-05-2009, 04:29 PM
Yep, cockchafer! They're harmless to people, don't bite or sting. He's a biggie, all right!
Mags
23-05-2009, 05:27 PM
I'm glad they're harmless, I wouldn't have touched it but Cassie was showing a lot of interest in it!:lol: ......... to hear her crunch on that would have made me cringe!!! :-D
jan
23-05-2009, 07:25 PM
Not as much as that "thing " would have cringed lol ! Jx
dandysmom
23-05-2009, 08:10 PM
I doubt if Cassie would have tried to eat it....all hard crunchy exoskeleton and not much "meat" so to speak!
angieh
24-05-2009, 12:44 PM
Good pictures of the Cockchafer or May Bug, Mags. So glad Cassie didn't eat it! Strangely handsome beastie IMO - not that I'd want to cuddle it though!
Mags
24-05-2009, 02:05 PM
It looks very hairy under those wings and looking at its hairy legs is enough to put me off! :lol:
MrsH
24-05-2009, 02:12 PM
Yep that's definitely a maybug, just like the one Jason brought in a few days ago and which we had flying around the living-room light. Nasty, ugly things!

We get them a lot round here and in early Summer evenings we potter around the kitchen without putting the lights on as they crash into the window and the glazed panel in the back-door. One af our neighbours called pest control out one year because she thought they were cockroaches.