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Can you identify this bug for me?

  • 19-05-2009 10:13am
    #1
    stitchlily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭


    This is biggest beetle I've ever seen in Ireland, and we're having trouble identifing it. Can anyone here help? sorry the picture isn't great...

    3545652554_8014863427_m.jpg


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Ah, it's that time of year again :)

    The photo isn't great but I'm fairly certain it's a May bug, or Cockchafer (stop sniggering at the back there!).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer


  • #3
    stitchlily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭stitchlily


    That was quick! Thanks!
    Yea, I did think it was a chafer of some sort but I'd never seen one that big before, so wasn't sure. Especially when they are said to thrive in dry, warm soils! Not exactly our climate at the moment.
    Good indicater of pollution levels, bad for the old spuds....


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    We usually get a spate of these things on here around this time of year, usually in the After Hours forum where people are convinced that we've been attacked by alien creatures from space :)

    The Cockchafer is the most common AFAIK, but there are other members of the chafer family of course, so if you still have it you could check to see if it could be one of those ...

    http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/chafer.htm


  • #5
    stitchlily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭stitchlily


    I'm not surprised people get freaked out by them. I grew up in the countryside and thought I knew most of the creepy crawlies out there, but I'd never seen one this big before...


  • #6
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    Cockchafers are attracted to moth traps. I've had as many as 30 at a trap. My daughter loves to play with them. (no cruelty I hasten to add!)


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  • #7
    MsQuinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭MsQuinn


    I had also never seen one of these before AFAIK, but in the past 10 days I’ve come across three of them.

    I usually stand at my back door for a cigarette before bed, and two nights in a row they scared the living daylights out of me by flying around me trying to get in to the light. The other time I found one under my sideboard while hovering. Had to cover it with a jam jar until the OH came home. Made him leave it in my nasty neighbour’s garden.:D

    I can usually handle most creepy crawlies but am a bit freaked by these ones. I’ve heard they are also called the May something or other, so just wondering when it might be safe to venture out to my smoking area again?


  • #8
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    MsQuinn wrote: »
    I can usually handle most creepy crawlies but am a bit freaked by these ones. I’ve heard they are also called the May something or other, so just wondering when it might be safe to venture out to my smoking area again?
    They're commonly called May Bugs, for obvious reasons, so as of Monday you should be safe again :pac:


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