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What An Interesting Day...
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...first the bees in the bird box....sleeping now but still with the guards around the entrance...
Then lots of gardening where I uncovered frog after frog....large ones and tiny ones...
But tonight, noodling here with the door open I was puzzled by a strange buzzing and crackling sound......and discovered a Cockchafer walking up the mug tree....it has many names.....I have never seen one before and it is the most fascinating beetle.....
I have had a google and in Avignon in 1320 cockchafers were taken to court and ordered to leave town...if they didn't comply they would be killed..
They have remarkable antennae....just like antlers....the male seven leaves and the female six....these allow the males to detect females in the dark.....(bet you'd like that...;-)...)
I have a female in the kitchen...and I'm delighted but will return it to the wild....google it......so interesting......Gx
Then lots of gardening where I uncovered frog after frog....large ones and tiny ones...
But tonight, noodling here with the door open I was puzzled by a strange buzzing and crackling sound......and discovered a Cockchafer walking up the mug tree....it has many names.....I have never seen one before and it is the most fascinating beetle.....
I have had a google and in Avignon in 1320 cockchafers were taken to court and ordered to leave town...if they didn't comply they would be killed..
They have remarkable antennae....just like antlers....the male seven leaves and the female six....these allow the males to detect females in the dark.....(bet you'd like that...;-)...)
I have a female in the kitchen...and I'm delighted but will return it to the wild....google it......so interesting......Gx
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Apparently there was an invasion of the beasties last summer.
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Also called doodlebugs...I like that name. :-)
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Also called doodlebugs...I like that name. :-)