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Cockchafer (was - Insect identification)

  • 27-05-2013 3:39pm
    #1
    SuePal
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    Found this stuck in the trampoline this morning. Have spent a while looking online to try to figure out what type of insect it is. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    OpenYourEyes
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    Cockchafer I think!


  • #3
    SuePal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭SuePal


    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Cockchafer I think!

    You are right that is exactly what it is. My kids are so excited to have found out. Thanks.


  • #4
    Grolschevik
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Cockchafer I think!

    I always wondered how it acquired that name...


  • #5
    OpenYourEyes
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    Grolschevik wrote: »
    I always wondered how it acquired that name...

    Presumably something to do with male chickens... :P


  • #6
    Grolschevik
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Presumably something to do with male chickens... :P

    Or weird Elizabethan trouser manufacturing.


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  • #7
    Alun
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    Well Käfer is the modern German word for beetle, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that the word chafer is a derivative of an Old-German version of that. Nothing to do with 'chafing' at all. Not sure about the 'cock' bit though.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Middle English cheaffer, chaver, Old English ceofor; akin to German Käfer and Cock in reference to it's size and vigour according to the OED.


  • #9
    Desmo
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    Alun wrote: »
    Well Käfer is the modern German word for beetle, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that the word chafer is a derivative of an Old-German version of that. Nothing to do with 'chafing' at all. Not sure about the 'cock' bit though.

    yes! Many modern words beginning with "k" have equivalent modern English word begining with "ch" e.g. cheese, church. Chafer is old english word for beetle.


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