OMG its Massive! May bug!

[Aileen35]

Just planting some nasturtium in our wildlife garden and un earthed the biggest May bug I have ever seen Huge!

Buried it in the middle of the totum poles and legged it!

Sign of a good summer my dears! guaranteed

Aileen

[Two_Sheds]

A larva?
They aren't flying yet are they?

* ducks.

I hate May Bugs, and June Bugs. I once sat at an open-air concert and the audience was bombed with June Bugs, crawling in our hair, down our clothes ... hideous things.

[janeyo]

I don't know what one is... NOT going to google it though in case I get nightmares lol

[Aileen35]

Not a big bug lover janeyo but this monster beast was Massive Being a very loyal member of the Wildlife trust Killing a may bug is not an option! google it anyway... go on I dare ya!

Aileen

[Aileen35]

A lavae Two sheds, but my god if thats a lavae god help the souls that meet the beetle!

[Two_Sheds]

The larvae looks worse than the adult ... but the adult gets in your hair !

[Aileen35]

Apart from running from May bugs today I also planted some common orchid and had a little chat with a female blackbird munching on an apple. Life is good

[janeyo]

I can never resist a dare (don't get any ideas Bob leponge), and googled it. Man that is one ugly bug!
Still not sure I have ever had the (dis)pleasure though of finding one - and I am in East Angular which wikipedia says they are prolific in.
That's probably a good thing, finding one of those would send me running back indoors for an indoor hobby!

[FionaH]

I really shouldnt have googled that!

[Aileen35]

It was 5cm long... Now bugs are ok, but 5cm, with loads of legs and a big black bottom yeak! And I am A wildlife specialist! lock up your daughters and ground the dog!

[Aileen35]

Oh well, up side is we have no pollution round here Doh!

[Aileen35]

That was one big mother... And I am time served... If you ride a harley, god help you in June

[Aileen35]

Also another good summer sign, the hawthorn is flowering for the first time ever.. Its going to be a stinky hot summer... Law states if you keep the hose pipe in the watering can you are not breaking the law! remember

[Aileen35]

We will be putting the hose pipe in the butt and watering from a can... attached to the butt ...Job done

[Raindancer411]

I dont know what bugs they were, but when I was at my boyfriends parents helping to lay a new front path there were loads of flying black insects. They looked like rather big mozzies but were very clumsy when flying. Spent most of their time crawling on the floor. Any ideas on what they may have been?