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big flying beetle

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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    It's a may bug .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer. Maybe he hasn't looked at the calendar :)


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    fade2black
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    He's quite the poser!


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    King.Penguin
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    lovely catch well done


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    Roen
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    I think they make weird cocoons under the ground. They look like something from Aliens. May be mistaken though.


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    artieanna
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    great pics, after seeing those am mad I didn't take couple pics of two chafers I saw today, one big brown/white speckled and a medium brownish black one.

    I was painting windows too engrossed in the job I suppose:( ...


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    Bernard Hopkins
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    its a dung beetle
    id say so anyway


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    dranoel
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    He's definitely a cockchafer


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    pj24052007
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    holy crap myself and the kids seen this bouncing off our back door and freaked out this evenining and are a bit freaked out.... i caught him in a plastic mug when he was stunned and dont know what to do.. we have never seen anything like it here and a little scared to be honest. do you know any more about this flying bug???


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    pj24052007
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    oh my god i have never seen this and am a little freaked out after catching one because the kids where freaked more than me so i had to be brave


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Nothing to be scared of, they appear every year about this time, surprisingly enough :)


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    Mothman
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    My daughter loves them.
    They come to moth traps, can have 30 in a night.
    One time she built an obstacle course for them and she's also taken them for walks with them crawling on her clothing.

    Not exactly the kindest thing for them,:o but I see it as nothing worse than disturbing their day's sleep.


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    Royal Legend
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    Found one in Wexford today, not the biggest, about 15mm long, saw a scary sized one a couple of years ago that did look like something from Alien.


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    WildIreland
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭WildIreland


    Yes... as others have pointed out this is a cockchaffer or maybug. Yours is a female I think... you can tell by counting the "leaves" on their feathery antennae -- males have seven on each side, whereas females only have six.

    Brilliant insects :-).


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