What is this insect i keep digging up?

[Jeanied]

I was scratching my head over this one as I thought you only got June bugs in the US.
When I googled cockchafer beetle I got the May bug which is where Paulottie may have got his Mayflies from:
Cockchafers

[Two_Sheds]

I thought you only got June bugs in the US.

Nah, chafers are called June bugs here too: London Borough of Bromley | CockChafer (May Bug, June Bug)

and from the Natural History Museum: http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=60774

(my, we're full of links this morning)

[Paulottie]

They were in our hair, down our clothes... hideous, just hideous.

I'm terrified of them (along with flying ants)

We can agree on that if not the timings....YERRRRRRRRUUUUUKKK...give me the screaming abdabs.

I sited a greenhouse about five years ago and they still seem to come up in there find them in trays and watertroughs...can hear them crunching under the trowel now.

[Nicos]

I know why they're also called cockchafers!!!......


A few years back, my BIL was opening his bedroom window as he was about to go to bed for the night.
In flew a humongous cockchafer - and landed on his dingly danglies!!!!!


Naturally he was confused as to which instinct to follow .....
a) whack it off
b) protect his manhood
or c) run round the bedroom flapping his arm like a girlie!!!!!!

needless to say- I wasn't there at the time,but rumour has it that he did a combination of all 3!!!!!

[binley100]

OK now sitting here itching and scratching and laughing at the mental image of Nicos's OH

[Nicos]

Brother in law!!!...if it'd been my OH- I'd have whacked it with the tennis racket

( well...who wants any more kids at my age!!)

[Nicos]

[QUOTE=Nicos;646993I'd have whacked it with the tennis racket
[/QUOTE]


nope- on second thoughts...I'd have hooted with laughter til I cried!!!!

[Jeanied]

I seem to remember that pipistrelles enjoy a nice cockchafer of an evening - we found one with the head bitten off and decided it had been taken in flight.

[ginger ninger]

I'd say there Vine weevils...are they like the photo's below?? There's one of the grub, Adult, Damage and what you can use to try and control them...Good Luck.

[Nicos]

and every time you touch them they curl upinto a C shape.

My guess having re-read your OP is that it's a vine weevil- the chafer grubs aren't moving- just in a solid c shape.

It's the 'really fat' and brown head which made me think of a chafer grub.

[basketcase]

[QUOTE=Nicos;646968]I know why they're also called cockchafers!!!......[QUOTE]


tea-----------> screen!

[Fernw]

Found this in my RHS Pests and Diseases book of a Chafer grub.

[binley100]

Brother in law!!!...if it'd been my OH- I'd have whacked it with the tennis racket

( well...who wants any more kids at my age!!)

Sorry *goes to fetch glasses

[gorgeousgrower]

I love these threads - you guys always give me a good giggle just before bed usually

[Snadger]

Called 'Docken grub' round ere! Fish luv em!