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Giant bug!!!

PlantyPruPlantyPru Posts: 142
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Can someone tell me what this giant creature is please?!?!?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s a Cockchafer ... love them ... such handsome creatures ... we get quite a few here 



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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm not so sure. It might be a summer chafer rather than a cockchafer. They have a slightly lighter brown to the head.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2020
    Thought summer chafers have a more matt surface on the wing cases?  We get both around here and that’s usually my ID method ... but I may be wrong. 😊 
    And some cockchafers are ginormous too of course. 

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Hard to tell when they're wet I suppose but a lovely bug either way. Unless you're one of those weirdos who like grass... :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We love them ...they rattle around in the tops of the ash trees around here and we watch the bats swooping to catch them

    wonderful 😀 

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





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