General Chat

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!

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.

sharron what is an incubus?

Ann
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You wouldn't wantone coming in your window!

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.

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

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,,,,!!