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#1 User is offline   BenF 

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:53 PM

I found it at work this morning - it was enormous (some of the wonen wouldn't come near it!), but when one of the biologists told me what I had it made me smile

he told me it was a c0ckchafer

clicky here

and I never felt a thing... laugh.gif


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:54 PM

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:55 PM

nice find smile.gif
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:56 PM

Enormous?? It says it is only 30mm long - just over an inch! Pfftt. dry.gif


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:56 PM

I'd soil myself if one of those landed on me! laugh.gif
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:00 PM

Ben - I cannot believe you have lived so long and not seen one before!! Move to Suffolk!!!
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:01 PM

nah - its all disappearing into the sea!


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:02 PM

Lets hope the bugs go with it then!!
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:09 PM

Technically only Hemiptera are bugs bleh.gif

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:15 PM

I never new what they were called we get them in our garden as our house backs on to woodlands,our garden and suroundings are full of trees and bushes smile.gif

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:15 PM

Just found this:

The cockchafer is featured in a German children's rhyme similar to the English Ladybird, Ladybird. The German rhyme goes

Maikäfer flieg...
Dein Vater ist im Krieg
Deine Mutter ist in Pommerland
Pommerland ist abgebrannt
Maikäfer flieg!

Cockchafer fly...
Your father is at war
Your mother is in Pomerania
Pomerania is all aflame
Cockchafer fly!

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:18 PM

well thank you, Julie! I had not realised they were so common though!

what's the difference between the families you posted, Vix? (Hemiptera and Homoptera)

I only want the technical explanation, you understand...


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:21 PM

Hemiptera is a broader category, of which Homoptera form a part. I can never remember which way round they are laugh.gif
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:22 PM

I have just realised that cockchafer gets past the swear filter - what is this site coming to?!


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:23 PM

QUOTE (Crystalpuma @ May 12 2008, 10:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The cockchafer is featured in a German children's rhyme similar to the English Ladybird, Ladybird.


I would rather a ladybird got caught in my hair than a cockchafer!! woot2.gif




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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:24 PM

Are you Buggering about ,Ben laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:24 PM

I still can't see how something barely over an inch can chafe much at all! roflmao.gif


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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:27 PM

Never had bladder stones then wacko.gif
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:28 PM

QUOTE (Caloubear @ May 12 2008, 10:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I still can't see how something barely over an inch can chafe much at all! roflmao.gif



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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:29 PM

you tinker, Julie!

how many other naughty words can you get past the filter?


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