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Paul Anderson
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I have large black beetles eating my honeysuckle, what are they and what am I supposed to do, any advise would be greatly appreciated. 
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How large is large?
We'll need a picture please Paul
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It was from my girlfriend and she is now asleep, can you both take an educated guess, they were small but larger than small if that makes sense etc
Aphids?? Or honeysuckle beetle if there is such a thing etc
Not really - that would be like putting 'black beetle' into Google - are you sure it's a beetle? Could it be a weevil?
You suggest aphids, but they're not beetles and they're not large.
We need a photo and some sort of measurement.
What are they eating - the new growing tips and flowers, or the larger lower leaves?
And don't go spraying them with insecticide!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Its UNDER the Leaf....
They only come out at night and are eating a newly planted Honeysuckle, around 10mm in length.....black
Pity the leaf is obscuring it! It looks like the front end of an earwig to me - does it have "pincers" at the back end [do a google images search for "earwig"]?
If it is an earwig, you can catch them by stuffing some straw into a plant pot, turning it upside down and pushing the pot onto a cane that you put into the plant around the height of the leaves.
Are you sure it's out of focus pansyface - have you got your specs on
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The insect is in perfect focus to me (under the out of focus leaf) as I can see the different parts of the antennae!
I will try and get another photo tomorrow
it almost looks like one of the crickets my brother feeds his lizards with?