May 22May 22 🤣I'm not kidding. Left the window open with the light on and this big boy was on my bed. He must have been about 30 mm long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer Edited May 22May 22 by martin-w
May 22May 22 “Last night I had a huge Cockchafer!!!!”Four exclamation marks; sounds very self-stimulating 😆
May 22May 22 Well ... that didn't end up the way I thought it would. Joel Murray @ CYVR (actually, somewhere about halfway between CYNJ and CZBB)
May 22May 22 Author Don't let it bug you.He was actually quite cute. I transported him in a glass to the window and plonked him down on the outside ledge.Not a unique experience in Jersey. Last time it was a cricket/grasshopper. Another big boy. Edited May 22May 22 by martin-w
May 23May 23 On 5/22/2026 at 2:58 PM, tdflightsim said:I'm still waiting for Charlie's response.😁He must be away for the weekend. I imagine he’d do this:“Try this for Cockchafers:
May 24May 24 When I grew up in Germany, we had tons of them every May. They are attracted to light and we had to keep windows closed in the evening to avoid having dozens of them inside our home. I now live at Canada'a East coast, where we have a similar phenomenon with the slightly smaller June bugs. Their scientific name is Phallophaga .. sorry, Phyllophaga :)
May 24May 24 Author 5 hours ago, qqwertz said:When I grew up in Germany, we had tons of them every May. They are attracted to light and we had to keep windows closed in the evening to avoid having dozens of them inside our home. I now live at Canada'a East coast, where we have a similar phenomenon with the slightly smaller June bugs. Their scientific name is Phallophaga .. sorry, Phyllophaga :)The Cockchafer is also known as the maybug.
May 26May 26 We used to have Maybugs come in the house in the evening. The first you'd know about it was that low drone of something 'big' flying around the room.They were attracted by the lights and came up from the small river 200m below the bottom of our garden. The fields rising above the other side of the river used to be pasture and full of moo moos but that was twenty years ago.Nowadays the 'economic' way of diary farming is to keep all your cattle in a very big shed, feed them a diet of scientifically worked out proteins and antibiotics and milk them by robot.The fields now grow two crops of rapeseed a year and the insecticides sprayed over the them have done for the Maybugs, with a consequent knock on effect to the rest of the local wild life.Sad really...
May 27May 27 Author 15 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:We used to have Maybugs come in the house in the evening.Please call it a cockchafer, because it has comedic value.
May 28May 28 Author Latest visitor. He was bloody massive!European Hornet. (Vespra Crabro)He was 1 inch long. 😁
May 30May 30 On 5/28/2026 at 5:55 AM, martin-w said:Latest visitor. He was bloody massive!European Hornet. (Vespra Crabro)He was 1 inch long. 😁I bet he had cockchafer envy😁 Tom MAKA = Make America Kind Again
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