What the ell is this?

Damomanye

Just took a few photos of a massive insect i found in my garden today..bloody huge. It looks like a cockroach. He's bigger than a 2 euro coin.

have a look for yer selves.
any one know?
Photo 1
Photo 2

Dave!

emm... it's... THE DEVIL!!!!!! :eek:

Nah, it looks like some sort of beetle... ya don't see them that big over here though

snickerpuss

I feel really ill now, I don't ever want to meet something like that.
How big is it? (its kinda hard to tell)

Alun

It's a May Bug, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_bug. Not that uncommon at all, really.

RedPlanet

Looks to me what they call a "June Bug".
They get these in most of USA.
I don't know what the scientific term is.
Totally harmless.
I've never seen one here before tho.

Kind of loud when they fly and gross when they land on you and cling-on with their legs.

edit: May Bug?
Jeez maybe i heard that wrong.

hshortt

Uggghhh, I'd run!! Was it dead? Watch out for it's brothers and sisters

smoke

edit: Just deleted my useless reply!

Damomanye

he's dieing. hasn't moved all morning. cheers lads for the responses

CuLT

wikipedia wrote:

The Cockchafer or "May bug", as it is colloquially called, is a European beetle of the family of the dung beetles, the Scarabaeidae.

Scarab heals your wounds!

gandalf

Do you want to know more

Dave!

Alun wrote:

It's a May Bug, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_bug. Not that uncommon at all, really.

Oh my god, it flies!!! :eek: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!

chamlis

gandalf wrote:

Do you want to know more

lol. Nice quote.

drdre

what the hell is that, it looks weird

squire1

Ahh, the poor thing. Did you try to feed it? Maybe with your cat or a small child.

RedPlanet

In my experience those bugs come from under the ground (burrowers) and the cold temps affects them, just like it affects bees.
ie: when it's cold out they can't move very well. Maybe put him someplace warm and he might liven up for ya.

hshortt

Maybe, 'sqish' it and then take a picture asking what it is

blocparty

thats really weird cause i came home on sat and saw one on my pourch. i was slightly worse for wear. i was totally freaked by it. when i got there it was on its back. i kicked it off the pourch and it sounded like i kicked a stone. they are pretty big

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36002429@N00/151169576/

Dave!

blocparty wrote:

thats really weird cause i came home on sat and saw one on my pourch. i was slightly worse for wear. i was totally freaked by it. when i got there it was on its back. i kicked it off the pourch and it sounded like i kicked a stone. they are pretty big

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36002429@N00/151169576/

Oh my god,that looks like an alien!!! :eek:

Calibos

Had one in the back garden last year. "What in the name of **** is that!!". Had a close look and noticed its antler like antenna. Googled 'antler beetle' and was able to identify it from various images of beetles with antler like antenna.

Amusingly, that ability to research and identify the beetle within about 2 minutes using the internet impressed the old dear more "aren't computers and the internet amazing" than me networking the house and downloading and streaming Tv shows all over the house for her etc

Damomanye

DaveMcG wrote:

Oh my god,that looks like an alien!!! :eek:

It does actually...:D .Their slowly massing.

Karoma

'Cockchafer' *titter*

takola

Omg First gigantic bees and now this! Christ if i wanted to live among huge bugs i'd move to Australia!!!! :eek:

/me shudders

MidnightQueen

That is one big bug. Maybe it could be the one you see on MIB. Ahhh!! Run for your lives.....or join the MIB.