Don't get them since we dug up our lawn and layed paving; used to like the bumbling idiots crashing into walls and falling upside down. The grubs are truly gross though and bloody huge
What's the matter with you all? Insects are absolutely beautiful creatures. I encourage the wasps into our garden by feeding them honey.
I haven't had the pleasure of one of these yet, but I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to my first cockchafing experience.
Watch life in the undergrowth and tell me Wasps are beautiful. I like all of nature, except Wasps who are the manifestation of pure evil in flying stripey form.
What's the matter with you all? Insects are absolutely beautiful creatures. I encourage the wasps into our garden by feeding them honey.
I haven't had the pleasure of one of these yet, but I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to my first cockchafing experience.
Watch life in the undergrowth and tell me Wasps are beautiful. I like all of nature, except Wasps who are the manifestation of pure evil in flying stripey form.
What's the matter with you all? Insects are absolutely beautiful creatures. I encourage the wasps into our garden by feeding them honey.
I haven't had the pleasure of one of these yet, but I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to my first cockchafing experience.
Watch life in the undergrowth and tell me Wasps are beautiful. I like all of nature, except Wasps who are the manifestation of pure evil in flying stripey form.
I do regularly EA. They are fantastic.
What about the hornet then Stig, surely they are the work of Beelzebub (even though I do enjoy your photos of the stripey bringers of death & pain...)?
Don't get them since we dug up our lawn and layed paving; used to like the bumbling idiots crashing into walls and falling upside down. The grubs are truly gross though and bloody huge
Blow me down if the wife didn't just call me upstairs to get one out of the bedroom. Turned off lights and coaxed him into the bathroom where he smacked against the wall and landed upside down the the (empty) bath.You've got to love them. Safely released!
What's the matter with you all? Insects are absolutely beautiful creatures. I encourage the wasps into our garden by feeding them honey.
I haven't had the pleasure of one of these yet, but I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to my first cockchafing experience.
Watch life in the undergrowth and tell me Wasps are beautiful. I like all of nature, except Wasps who are the manifestation of pure evil in flying stripey form.
I do regularly EA. They are fantastic.
What about the hornet then Stig, surely they are the work of Beelzebub (even though I do enjoy your photos of the stripey bringers of death & pain...)?
I can't really comment on hornets as I don't have any experience of them. Would love the chance to get some photos of one though.
This is my weirdest encounter - a palm weevil. I should have killed it apparently as they spell death to palm trees, but I didn't know that at the time. Bad photo, but it was incredibly difficult in the half-light with the weevil in one hand and camera in the other.
We used to see them when living out there and you certainly take notice if there's a hornet buzzing about your picnic. Stig would be a brave man to have one pearched on his finger when it the same size as it!
Stage beetles are usually black, about double the size, don't usually fly and have antler-like jaws. Cockchafers are brown, love flying into windows and have red "leaves" on their antennae.
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The grubs are truly gross though and bloody huge
I haven't had the pleasure of one of these yet, but I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to my first cockchafing experience.
Turned off lights and coaxed him into the bathroom where he smacked against the wall and landed upside down the the (empty) bath.You've got to love them. Safely released!
This is my weirdest encounter - a palm weevil. I should have killed it apparently as they spell death to palm trees, but I didn't know that at the time. Bad photo, but it was incredibly difficult in the half-light with the weevil in one hand and camera in the other.
[checks to make sure it's not one of those pictures that people try to sneak onto eBay}
Stage beetles are usually black, about double the size, don't usually fly and have antler-like jaws.
Cockchafers are brown, love flying into windows and have red "leaves" on their antennae.
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