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Artificial grass bugs

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Get a magnifying glass. Give them names. Watch how they swim. Try taking some great photos close up.
  • 897h897h Posts: 5
    edited June 2018
    Jesus. 🤣 Thanks for your input everyone. Will take that as noone knows or really cares what they are. Gave me a laugh anyway. Enjoy the sunshine...

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    We learnt about beetles at Beetle Drives (well, we learnt how many legs they had etc)

    We had plastic ones we had to assemble  ... they'd go with the plastic grass duck

    Anyone remember Beetle Drives in the church hall with supper afterwards  ..... or am I really very very old now?  rolleyes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle_(game) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Pic is too small to see clearly, but may be some kind of weevil by the looks of it 
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    Craig, it doesn't matter what they are.  They won't hurt your children.   When my neice was 2 years old she tried eating a worm.  I asked her how it tasted.  Yuk, was the response.  :D 

    We aren't having a go at you.  We just feel sorry that so many kids miss out on learning stuff cos parents have become so freaked out about germs.  
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    A worm? Pah, that’s nothing... when my eldest was about 1 or 2 he picked up a baby bird that had fallen out of a nest above the patio and promptly shoved it in his mouth. I wouldn’t recommend that though...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Jellyfire said:
    A worm? Pah, that’s nothing... when my eldest was about 1 or 2 he picked up a baby bird that had fallen out of a nest above the patio and promptly shoved it in his mouth. I wouldn’t recommend that though...
    Don't you feed your children???!!!  :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    edited June 2018
    Don’t need to, the hunter/gatherer instinct is strong  :#

    (forgot to add it was still alive at the time btw) 🤢
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's a SBB. (Small Black Beetle). Vital part of the ecosystem.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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