Cockchafer beetle!! Ahhhh!!

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These are a large beetle about two inches long,flying, with reddy brown wings on first look resemble a cockroach.

We started off last week with one in the back garden....there are now 4!! Flying outside the patio window they are big and stupid it sounds like someone is throwing stones at the glass.

I googled them and they are called cockchafers ( yes I did laugh a lot when I found out!!) and I can't seem to find out how to get rid of them?

Please tell me other people have seen them?

And bless my little Jack Russell she is desperate to get outside to see them off!
 
May bugs, bl00dy hate them, they dive bomb you.
If you turn the light out/ close the curtains they might go away.
 
Ugh I have a maybug shoulder barging the patio door as I type too. He's 2 days early damn him! I have long wavy hair so hate it when they dive bomb for fear of getting it caught in my hair in my general panic *shudders*
 
Honestly they don't bite or sting but if I catch sight of one (there were 3 demented ones in the garden the other evening) I turn into an Olympic sprinter :o
 
Ha ha, i love them (call them doodlebugs, but they ARE maybugs..Cockchafers is hilarious!!) They will soon disappear though, they are called may bugs for a reason! They wont hurt you but they do have really sticky feet, if you pick them up they are impossible to put down as have little spurs on there feet and legs!
My cat is terrified of them!! (he caught one once and it got stuck to his lip..cue frantic headshaking for 10 mins!!)
 
I really hate them. Bad experiences with cockroaches in my childhood :D and they look too familiar! They turn my stomach!
 
"In some areas and times, cockchafers were even served as food. A 19th century recipe from France for cockchafer soup reads: "roast one pound of cockchafers without wings and legs in sizzling butter, then cook them in a chicken soup, add some veal liver and serve with chives on a toast". And a German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. A cockchafer stew is referred to in W.G. Sebald's novel The Emigrants." eeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh
 
Lydz13 said:
"In some areas and times, cockchafers were even served as food. A 19th century recipe from France for cockchafer soup reads: "roast one pound of cockchafers without wings and legs in sizzling butter, then cook them in a chicken soup, add some veal liver and serve with chives on a toast". And a German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. A cockchafer stew is referred to in W.G. Sebald's novel The Emigrants." eeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh
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That does not even bear thinking about ewwww!!

My next door neighbour told my o/h that were some new bugs around called...cockCHASERS! Ha ha I dared him to type that into google!
They do creep me out a lot and they are pretty fast!( although rather stupid) But the males that have the big fans on there antenna are quite cute!
 
We don't get them down here really. I've only ever seen one or two. We get lots of stag beetles (may bugs are a type or scarab beetle which is why they are so tough) and at the moment I am experiencing an invasion of...

FLEAS!! Why oh why do I have cats and dogs??? LOL
 
I've never seen one in Manchester but last year at uni in Lincoln, we had a BBQ and as dusk fell, my God! We were being dive bombed left, right and centre and they stick to you!
Daft as a brush they are, but I don't like them sticking to me!
K x
 
Me and a friend were dive-bombed by a swarm of them on a hack one evening - they were all tangled up in her horse's tail, it was awful and hilarious at the same time!!

Thank god I was on my bombproof old pony as I was hanging off him dodging them and laughing at the same time and he just plodded on.

And we giggled too when we found out the name of them :D
 
Ewwwwww horrible things,give me the creeps.We call them May/June bugs.Theyre attracted to the light. I havent seen any as of yet,but no doubt they will appear sooner than later.Horrible things!!!!
 
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