Strange beetle

[sdhull]

I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Stephen.

[Lino expert]

> No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps

Looks like a May bug.

[Kaptain Kremin]

> 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

[Andrew Gabriel]

>>> 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.

[sdhull]

I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found some info here;

and it is indeed a May Bug.

Thanks very much, I can now tell them as work what it is called.

Stephen.

[sdhull]

There is also a june bug ;-)

[sdhull]

>>>>> 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.

[Kaptain Kremin]

Hmm, last dune bug I saw was based on a VW :-/

KK

[dmc]

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

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah I was going toi say 'cockchafer' but then everybody started saying May Bug.

We used to call em JUNE bugs..

Hmm.

[Lino expert]

Same thing...a rose by any other name...

[brass monkey]

Lesser spotted pencil humper?

[Steve Firth]

I found eveything on your website. Your security sucks.

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

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.

8¬()

[DAVE]

This one looks like it's been prept for a re-spray !!

Wavey Dave

[Kaptain Kremin]

and we'll never see the finished job now he's been murdered by the OP :-(

KK

[A.Clews]

Thus spake [e-mail] ( [e-mail]) unto the assembled multitudes:

I think that URL should be

Wiki says that it doesn't tolerate pollution very well, so this dead one might be a useful indicator of your local air quality ;-)

[sdhull]

Indeed, although it was found in the generator room, noisy yet airy, probably the fumes from the generators that seen it off.

Stephen.

[sdhull]

I don't really need security in that area, its where I store stuff for public viewing.

But thanks anyway

Stephen.

[sdhull]

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.