Strange beetle
 

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

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle1.jpg
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Stephen.



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Strange beetle
 

On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

Strange beetle
 

Lino expert wrote in message
...
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

That'll explain why it's dead then :-)

Sorry, I'll get me coat


KK

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In article ,
Lino expert writes:
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

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.

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In message 744d1a95-8a2c-49b1-ae64-307c8b67512f@l12g2000yqo.
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Lino expert wrote:

On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...eetle1.jpghttp
://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk/example/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.


I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

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

Stephen.


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In message
"Kaptain Kremin" wrote:

Lino expert wrote in message
...
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

That'll explain why it's dead then :-)

There is also a june bug ;-)

Sorry, I'll get me coat


KK




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In message
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Lino expert writes:
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

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 just read that its a delicacy in France, yuk!

Stephen.


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sdhull wrote in message ...
In message
"Kaptain Kremin" wrote:

Lino expert wrote in message
...
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here
perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

That'll explain why it's dead then :-)

There is also a june bug ;-)

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


KK

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In article ,
Lino expert wrote:
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

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

Strange beetle
 

wrote:
In message 744d1a95-8a2c-49b1-ae64-307c8b67512f@l12g2000yqo.
googlegroups.com
Lino expert wrote:

On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...eetle1.jpghttp
://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk/example/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.
Looks like a May bug.


I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

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

Stephen.


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

We used to call em JUNE bugs..

Hmm.

Strange beetle
 

On 10 June, 21:34, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
wrote:
In message 744d1a95-8a2c-49b1-ae64-307c8b67512f@l12g2000yqo.
googlegroups.com
* * * * * Lino expert wrote:

On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...eetle1.jpghttp
://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk/example/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.
Looks like a May bug.

I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfoand it
is indeed a May Bug.

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

Stephen.

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

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

We used to call em JUNE bugs..

Hmm.

Strange beetle
 

wrote in message
...
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle1.jpg
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Lesser spotted pencil humper?

Strange beetle
 

wrote:

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

I found eveything on your website. Your security sucks.

Strange beetle
 

"Kaptain Kremin" wrote in message
...
sdhull wrote in message ...
In message
"Kaptain Kremin" wrote:

Lino expert wrote in message
...
On 10 June, 18:35, wrote:
I found this (dead) beetle the other day at work,
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg
No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.

Looks like a May bug.

That'll explain why it's dead then :-)

There is also a june bug ;-)

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




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

Wavey Dave

Strange beetle
 

DAVE wrote in message ...
Kaptain Kremin wrote in message
...
Snipperty snip
There is also a june bug ;-)

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

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

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


KK

Strange beetle
 

In message
wrote:

Thus spake ) unto the
assembled multitudes:
I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

I think that URL should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer

The 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.


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In message
(Steve Firth) wrote:

wrote:

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

I found eveything on your website. Your security sucks.

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

But thanks anyway

Stephen.



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In message
"www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
wrote:

wrote:
I've just read that its a delicacy in France, yuk!

Stephen.
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¬()

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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scribeth thus
In message
"www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
wrote:

wrote:
I've just read that its a delicacy in France, yuk!

Stephen.
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¬()

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.



I had a rather tasty dish at a wedding reception the other year in
France, all nine courses, and was offered some more of the same which
was duly accepted..

Wondering what this was just looked at the menu..

Trust you all know what Escargots are;!....


--
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Strange beetle
 

http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle1.jpg
http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.c...le/beetle2.jpg

No one at work can identify it as yet, can anyone here perhaps
help with identification? just for curiosity really.


It is a cockchafer. If you look at the feathery bits you can determine the
gender. males have seven sections.

Peter Crosland

Strange beetle
 

Lino expert wrote:
Stephen.
Ah I was going toi say 'cockchafer' but then everybody started saying
May Bug.

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


So it wasn't a rosechafer?


(actually they're green. And _I_ call the other beasty a cockchafer)


Andy

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"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
....
I had a rather tasty dish at a wedding reception the other year in
France, all nine courses, and was offered some more of the same which
was duly accepted..

Wondering what this was just looked at the menu..

Trust you all know what Escargots are;!....

I have one of the special cooking dishes for them as part of my kitchen
equipment. Unfortunately, in some restaurants, they just taste like bits of
rubber in garlic butter.

Colin Bignell

Strange beetle
 

In article , nightjar
scribeth thus

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
...
I had a rather tasty dish at a wedding reception the other year in
France, all nine courses, and was offered some more of the same which
was duly accepted..

Wondering what this was just looked at the menu..

Trust you all know what Escargots are;!....

I have one of the special cooking dishes for them as part of my kitchen
equipment. Unfortunately, in some restaurants, they just taste like bits of
rubber in garlic butter.


These didn't .. they were superb:))


Colin Bignell




--
Tony Sayer

Strange beetle
 

tony sayer wrote:

Trust you all know what Escargots are;!....

Nowadays usually bits of sheep lung in a garlic butter sauce.

Strange beetle
 

In message
wrote:

Thus spake ) unto the
assembled multitudes:
I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

I think that URL should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer

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

Opps yes, dont know what happend to the URL I posted.

Stephen.


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Strange beetle
 

wrote:


I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

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

Stephen.

The last time I saw the term used was something like twenty years ago
when reading Denis Winter's book 'Haig's Command', where he mentions
the French General Castelnau describing Allied efforts to attack the
Germans as "We are like a cockchafer in a glass cage, sticking our
head out right and left haphazard". I always wondered what a
cockchafer was...no internet in those days!

Strange beetle
 

In message
Terry Fields wrote:


wrote:


I've googled for "May Bug" (now I know what to look for) and found
some info here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchaferinfo and it
is indeed a May Bug.

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

Stephen.

The last time I saw the term used was something like twenty years ago
when reading Denis Winter's book 'Haig's Command', where he mentions
the French General Castelnau describing Allied efforts to attack the
Germans as "We are like a cockchafer in a glass cage, sticking our
head out right and left haphazard". I always wondered what a
cockchafer was...no internet in those days!


I tried a search on the internet initially but couldn't find
anything, hence me asking here ;-)

Stephen.



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