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there are at least 3 of these floating on my pond, not dead but having a soak or swim,!)) by the look of it will go out and rescue if they havnt managed by them selves,,,,,,,,,,,,,they arent so scary......they dont bite or sting,,,,,,,,,but ugly is the word......and big,,,,!!

Have just watched him climb carefully out of the window.Bye-bye little incubus(google it!)

Well,I've just looked into the fruit bowl to let him out and he is not there.Don't know where he is but the cat may have eaten him.

You wouldn't wantone coming in your window!

sharron what is an incubus?

Ann
glos

This familiar beetle has a black thorax, rusty brown elytra (wing cases) and brown legs. It has characteristic antennae that fan out.

You can often see cockchafers on May evenings buzzing around the garden. As large, noisy insects they can be a little frightening, but are actually harmless to humans. However, they can considerably damage garden plants and crops.

The larvae, also called rookworms, are fat, creamy-white grubs with brown heads. They live in the soil for about three years eating plant roots. They especially like cereal crops and grasses and can do a great deal of damage.

What does it eat?
Adults chew flowers and leaves. Larvae eat plant roots.

When will I see it?
At night from May to July.

Where will I see it?
Humming loudly around the garden on late spring evenings, often crashing noisily into lit windows. You may see the larvae when digging in the garden. Also in parks and woodland margins.

Are any of you confusing cockchafer with incubus?He's a handsome brown fellow with lovely big bushy antennae and he is resting quietly in the fruit bowl.He doesn't smell or sting.I don't know what he eats but there is still fruit left in the bowl.Wish I hadn't told you now,so there!

It is that time of year again!
I am doing the rounds of the smaller open windows of the house, putting fly netting over them.
My elder son was woken up by a wasp buzzing round his ear yesterday morning and was not happy!
Cockchafers we do not need.

We get them as well didn't know what they were until we moved into this house, and they started to come down the chimney. Had to get a neighbour in to see it (safely kept under a glass) and remove it

But Rox, they are HORRIBLE !!!! LOL

Viv

Oh You cruel lot!!lol

We have them here and their huge,I have to say not my favorite creature:-))

You rotton thing Uggers.
She's really coming back as a vampire bat!

lmao Jac - best you don't reincarnate as one then:)))

I love em, they get eaten by the kestrels, love watchin it, they can arf buzz, first time i saw 1 thought it was a bee...lol
i get loads of the little blighters, dog run rounds catchin them tooo..lol
xxxx

We had one in our kitchen last year, and it frightened the bejebas out of me!!

Hubby carefully caught it in a glass, put it in a match-box and drove a mile to the canal and let it go!! frigging thing was back before he was!!

Sandal to the ready and splatt!! No more chaffing for that one!

Jac

If that had been me I think I would have jumped straight out of the window, Sharron. Viv's right they are evil and should have died out with things like witches and village idiots...

Just found him sitting in my fruit bowl.I like them,he is very beautiful,shiny brown bloke.He can sit there safe until tonight and I will put him back out to go cockchafing else where.
Thank you for the compliment Sue,I am sitting up and taking a little light nourishment,well quite a lot of light nourishment actually,but perhaps not from the fruit bowl today!

Daughter phoned me tonight - one the size of an elephant in her bathroom.
I couldn't believe it - (not the size) - daughter afraid of a stupid rampant male cockchafer (think on that name LOL) that can hardly fly!!!
I had to 'talk her through' removing it!!!

maggie

Yes and when you go to the loo in the middle of the night and switch the bathroom light on and you are half asleep they frighten the wits out of you as they make a right noise flying into the glass.

Oh dear, I was waiting for them to begin arriving looks like they are here.

Viv, I have to go and google now, you made me curious...