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What is this? Seen in Donegal in large numbers

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  • 26-05-2010 11:49pm
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    nedoo
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭


    Loads of these fellas started hitting off the window of my place in Donegal last week. Look like fair size cockroaches from the top. Check out what they look like from underneath. Anybody know what it is?


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    FAYESY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭FAYESY


    God how I hate these bugs! They are may bugs! They spend around 7 years in the larval form in the ground & in May they start to emerge & mate etc.


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    Sapsorrow
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    :eek::eek::eek: I'd be worried if I was you! Start building a bomb shelter and stocking up on tins of beans!


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    EGAR
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    Looks like a cockchafer beetle. They are known to *mass flight* and usually appear in April/May. Adults only live for a few weeks.


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    Trotter
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    One of them decided to appear in front of me when I was a kid.. At 3am in my bedroom. I've no idea how he got in but he sounded like a Morris Minor flying around my room. I still remember the fright.


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    EGAR
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    Yep, they sound like a helicopter. Quite scary sounding and looking but harmless to humans :D, I am sure spuds don't share the sentiment :rolleyes:.


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    nedoo
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭nedoo


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer

    Thats them. Who do they think they are coming here and stealing our.....em


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