Flying beetles!!!

[Saint Domingo]

I know this post is in the completely wrong place but I have no idea to put these questions!

1. Can anyone tell me what those horrible flying beetle type insects are?
2. Why is there a million of them in my garden?
3. Can you do anything about them?

Cheers for your help!

 

[Ex-Splitter and Proud]

Do they look like this?

 

[firestorm]

 

[vim_fuego]

I know this post is in the completely wrong place but I have no idea to put these questions!

1. Can anyone tell me what those horrible flying beetle type insects are?
2. Why is there a million of them in my garden?
3. Can you do anything about them?

Cheers for your help!

1. Probably May Bugs.
2. It's their time of year to come out and rut and die.
3. Break out your old tennis racket and have some fun...

They are annoying but harmless.

 

[Ex-Splitter and Proud]

The picture above is of a June bug...
DT_Xtremez_42:

They used to be a real pain around Honington at this time of year.



Vim.... you're soooooooo last month, mate!
DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[shettie]

Also known as a cockchafer! - http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCAQsAQwAw Had a nasty experience at Bruggen with these frigging things - down a "hole" on the airfield which was covered in a cam net - late on an early summers evening - we could hear the buzzing over the noise of the kit! Thinking it was a swarm of bees/wasps/hornets (!) we battened down the hatches and sweated our boll8cks off for a couple of hours - when we eventually plucked up the courage to open the blast doors - the place was littered with dead dunebugs/cockchafers/May bugs - thousands of 'em!!

 

[Ex-Splitter and Proud]

Also known as a cockchafer!

So, just what did you do with them, shettie? Did you let them chafe your ...

DT_Xtremez_07:


You sick tw4t!:raf:

 

[shettie]

So, just what did you do with them, shettie? Did you let them chafe your ...

DT_Xtremez_07:


You sick tw4t!:raf:

Better than a jar of worms my boy!

 

[Ex-Splitter and Proud]

Better than a jar of worms my boy!

NOTHING's better than a jar of worms mate!
DT_Xtremez_07:

Well, except maybe a jar of worms in SWARFEGA!::

 

[Scaley brat]

NOTHING's better than a jar of worms mate!
DT_Xtremez_07:

Well, except maybe a jar of worms in SWARFEGA!::

Pfft, amateur! Take two slabs of raw liver and lubricate it with cod liver oil. It smells like the real thing and feels like the real thing but if you prefer your women to be alive, no pleasing some people, just microwave for 40 secs on high. Job done DT_Xtremez_14:



Erm ..... allegedly DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Ex-Splitter and Proud]

Pfft, amateur! Take two slabs of raw liver and lubricate it with cod liver oil. It smells like the real thing and feels like the real thing but if you prefer your women to be alive, no pleasing some people, just microwave for 40 secs on high. Job done DT_Xtremez_14:



Erm ..... allegedly DT_Xtremez_42:

Pah!

There's nothing to compare against a slippery little wriggler sliding down the old Jap's eyeDT_Xtremez_30:

 

[vim_fuego]

Stop talking about each others knobs and get back to Saint Domingos illogical fear of harmless bugs...

 

[Talk Wrench]

June Bugs were renowned for clogging up Pitot/Static systems on aircraft, particularly if people did not fit, or fitted incorrectly, the appropriate blanks.

I haven't seen it myself with June bugs, but I did have to purge the static system of a Jag with nitrogen after a sand wasp laid its eggs in the system due to a missing blank. Actually, it wasn't just eggs. It was Larvae!!!!

Oh deep joy DT_Xtremez_42:

TW

 

[theladf]

I remember swatting one of the brutes at Marham with an OX38 can, made a lovely noise (and a dent in the tin!!!!!!!)DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Talk Wrench]

I remember swatting one of the brutes at Marham with an OX38 can, made a lovely noise (and a dent in the tin!!!!!!!)DT_Xtremez_19:

Off Topic

Why did you have OX 38 at Marham? Surely it should've been OX26? Or was it for "visitors"

TW

 

[grumpyoldb]

Off Topic

Why did you have OX 38 at Marham? Surely it should've been OX26? Or was it for "visitors"

TW

The beetle was the visitor,............and it got it! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[theladf]

Off Topic

Why did you have OX 38 at Marham? Surely it should've been OX26? Or was it for "visitors"

TW

Look at my Avatar!!!!!!!!DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[gemarriott]

maggots! nuff saidDT_Xtremez_14: