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Is there an Entomologist in the house?

  • 01-06-2012 6:31pm
    #1
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭


    I was trimming some bushes this evening when I went inside for a glass of water, I was startled to see this insect clinging to my t-shirt, and I flicked him off and he flew around the kitchen for a few seconds before perching and I trapped him in a glass.

    I have never seen one of these things before and wonder what manner of winged beast is it?


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  • #2
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    It's a creepy crawly:)


  • #3
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ...langer beetle.



    It didn't touch your bare flesh did it?


  • #4
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    I think it's from Kerry.


  • #5
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Oh no.. OH DEAR GOD JESUS ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.........


  • #6
    Bipolar Joe
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    A trapped one. Let it out of the house.


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  • #7
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    hold on... did that just give birth to a euro ?


  • #8
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    A common beetle, not sure what exact name it has but I see it a lot. You didnt get out much as a kid did ya op? ;)


  • #9
    HemlockOption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭HemlockOption


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I was trimming some bushes this evening when I went inside for a glass of water, I was startled to see this insect clinging to my t-shirt, and I flicked him off and he flew around the kitchen for a few seconds before perching and I trapped him in a glass.

    I have never seen one of these things before and wonder what manner of winged beast is it?

    He looks utterly miserable -and probably gasping for air - please let him go!


  • #10
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    HemlockOption wrote: »
    He looks utterly miserable -and probably gasping for air - please let him go!

    what does a happy insect look like?


  • #11
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Looks like one of the grasshoppers from the Men In Black 2 movie which I went to see last week


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  • #12
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    I don't think its one of the ones that lays eggs in your ear canal while you sleep.

    Fairly sure.


  • #13
    HemlockOption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭HemlockOption


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    what does a happy insect look like?

    one that's not trapped under a glass - free


  • #14
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Insert Simpsons "overlord" reference here...


  • #15
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    The first one is a dung beetle.


  • #16
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    Does it **** euro coins?


  • #17
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    It's just a type of beetle, plenty of them around Dublin and they're harmless. Let him go.


  • #18
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,417 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Thats yer man out of Pinnochio


  • #19
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    Veiled attempt at letting us know you have money. Validated.


  • #20
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    The first one is a dung beetle.

    erm and the second one ?


  • #21
    RonnieLimerick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭RonnieLimerick


    Try here , i can't cause i can't find my glasses

    http://www.habitas.org.uk/groundbeetles/splist.asp


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  • #22
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    RonnieLimerick wrote: »
    Try here , i can't cause i can't find my glasses

    http://www.habitas.org.uk/groundbeetles/splist.asp

    7160.jpg

    Are these yours ?


  • #23
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Dung beetle but there's another name for them here. Common this time of year. Moncrieff on Newstalk had a piece on it yesterday I think or earlier on in the week...worth listening to the podcast OP


  • #24
    Diageio_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Diageio_Man


    Looks like a vine weevil to me, could be wrong though.


  • #25
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Pft, that's not a creepy crawlie....

    This is a creepy crawlie (that's a bike handgrip it's on)


  • #26
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    Latchy wrote: »
    Looks like one of the grasshoppers from the Men In Black 2 movie which I went to see last week

    Jaysus you must live in the back arse of nowhere ...Men in Black III is in the cinema these days !!


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