Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Is this a Great Diving Beetle?

  • 17-08-2015 10:42pm
    #1
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭


    I think it is. Found it in the porch of the house - big fella. If anyone else in the house sees him I expect screams of THERE'S A COCKROACH IN THE HOUSE!

    358960.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    axe2grind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭axe2grind


    it is :)


  • #3
    St. Leibowitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭St. Leibowitz


    It's a good diving beetle, not a great diving beetle (with apologies to Eamonn Dunphy)


  • #4
    Capercaillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    Find a nearby pond and release it.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Find a nearby pond and release it.

    It will fly to a pond itself.


  • #6
    baaba maal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    St. Leibowitz wrote: »
    It's a good diving beetle, not a great diving beetle (with apologies to Eamonn Dunphy)

    Without doubt the post of the day for me!

    Class.

    On a related note, I dug a pond a couple of years ago. I'm fortunate enough to live beside a lot of rough ground/abandoned cutaway bog. I placed the butyl rubber into the pond space, put the hose in and went back to the house to turn the tap on. By the time I got back to the pond, there were these distinct "clicks"-of course, when I got nearer, it was beetles of all descriptions hearing the sound of running water smacking off the pondliner. Unreal example (to me) of nature filling a niche that was just created.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement