I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,
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one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps help with identification? just for curiosity really.Stephen.
Strange beetle
Jun 10, 2009
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> No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
Looks like a May bug.
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> No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
That'll explain why it's dead then :-)
Sorry, I'll get me coat
KK
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>>> No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
I didn't know what they were, but we had loads of them flying around in the warm evenings a week or two back, together with loads of bats intercepting them mid-flight -- I'd never seen anything like it.
I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found some info here;
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and it is indeed a May Bug.
Thanks very much, I can now tell them as work what it is called.
Stephen.
There is also a june bug ;-)
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>>>>> No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
I've just read that its a delicacy in France, yuk!
Stephen.
Hmm, last dune bug I saw was based on a VW :-/
KK
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Looks like a May bug.
Yep. Used to get loads of them as a kid. They used to fly into my bedroom window (makes quite a noise... I assume attracted by the light).
Big buggers!
Darren
Ah I was going toi say 'cockchafer' but then everybody started saying May Bug.
We used to call em JUNE bugs..
Hmm.
Same thing...a rose by any other name...
Lesser spotted pencil humper?
I found eveything on your website. Your security sucks.
One very drunken night about.... 25 years ago... outside a pub in May one of these beasts was bashing about the outdoor lamp. One drunken friend dared me £5 to eat it.... so I did. Alive... Thought it best to crunch is bifore it bit me. The taste was remarkably nutty.
I was violenetly ill much later that night, but I thing that was more down to an excessive and unhealthy amount of alcohol consumed more than the May Bug.
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This one looks like it's been prept for a re-spray !!
Wavey Dave
and we'll never see the finished job now he's been murdered by the OP :-(
KK
Thus spake snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com ( snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
I think that URL should be
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Wiki says that it doesn't tolerate pollution very well, so this dead one might be a useful indicator of your local air quality ;-)
Indeed, although it was found in the generator room, noisy yet airy, probably the fumes from the generators that seen it off.
Stephen.
I don't really need security in that area, its where I store stuff for public viewing.
But thanks anyway
Stephen.
You'd have to pay me more than £5 quid, don't think I could even be tempted to eat one for £500, drunk or sober.
Stephen.
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