Strange flying beetle (and other spots)

[scaryoldcortina]

This appeared in the garage one night last week, making clunking and buzzing noises in the lights before falling to the floor. I put it outside next morning, took some photos but have no clue what it is.

 

Also from the strange pile, same night at ASDA I spotted this giant peugot 206

 

and this oddity which claims to be a mini clubman despite being small enough to fit in the back of a new one...

[scoobypete]

You didnt see jezza clarkson hangin around behind that clubby mini did you?

 

And i always wondered what a june bug was TB thanks to miss parton...

[Quintus]

Looks like a type of Dor beetle. According to the book I've got here they are 'scavengers and dung feeders'. Maybe it was looking for shite?

 

http://www.uksafari.com/dorbeetles.htm

[Station]

Haha, should get him on here.

 

Those Clubmans are really nice looking.

[Marshall]

A couple of years ago we had loads of those. They would come out at night and fly into the windows when the lights were on. Make quite racket.

 

First one I encountered face to face when I went out for a fag one night - Nearly shat me sen!

[scaryoldcortina]

You didnt see jezza clarkson hangin around behind that clubby mini did you?

 

No, but someone didn't put their trolley back.....

[morris_ital_lover]

IIRC, those beetles have a weird habit of mobbing you if you so much as go anywhere near them, a couple of years ago I was outside (near some sand dunes) when the little b-stards started attacking me, so I shat myself and ran!

 

m0rris

[Richard]

so I shat myself and ran!

 

m0rris

Probably a bad move if they eat dung.

[autofive]

i have a pic of the wee sleekit, couring, timorous beastie laying on its back, in a 200g coffee jar, i googled pics to try and ID it and the closest i could find was a dumbledore

 

[Des]

I used to see those bugs when I lived in the sticks, might be coincidental but they only used to appear after something diesel had been running, thus my name for them was diesel bugs. They're only barely just able to fly as well, had a habit of falling out of the air at random, and then spend half an hour or so taking off again, imagine a Chinook powered by Perkins 4108.

[trigger]

The beetles where i live are massive, I had two dead stag beetles in my garden last year after i accidentally killed them with bug killer

 

We also get these hobble flying beetles called Mayflys, or Cockchafers, They are nasty things that we only get in April, they come out of the hedge and fly into the patio doors with a big bang, If you get them in your hair the only way to get them out is to cut your hair as they stick to it.

[scaryoldcortina]

It had a kind of WW1 biplane vibe to it... chocks away! Tally ho .... Oh no, ginger's bought it. Jolly bad show, old chap.

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

Fuck that! I HATE spiders!

[scoobypete]

Lol theres a lot of those big buggers about at the moment,had a battle with one last night..even unloaded half a can of raid onto it and it was still trying to make a bid for freedom.........dont think so...finished it off with the news of the world

[fotorabia]

 

this is the new zealand HuHu beetle..ive been smacked in the head a couple of times on evening parties..their 35mm long..i nearly got knocked off a balcony once i got such a fright..if u can dig out their grubs from rotten timber..they taste like KFC

[autofive]

..if u can dig out their grubs from rotten timber..they taste like KFC

they taste that bad?