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sherrardk | 21:46 Sat 14th Apr 2012 | ChatterBank
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Just had to squish the biggest bug thing I have seen - like an ear wig with wings. Yeuch, no idea what it was!
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It is, however, a dead flying earwig -the best type
22:12 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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When my head hits that pillow I am fast asleep - not very nice wanting me to have nightmares though.
22:12 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Not a May Bug if it was skinny, they have rounded bodies, not unlike a scarab beetle shape.
22:12 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Exactly Lardhelmet, insects I can identify are safe, the ones I can't are goners.
22:14 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Just looked at your link ann and all I can say is "Ahhhhhggggg" I shall buy some insect killer and a great big swatter in the next few days.
22:18 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Yeah, almost certainly possessed by the devil, it's so easy to tell. Just kill everything strange to be on the safe side. Get a grip, it was only a piddly little insect and competely harmless.
22:19 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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When I lived in Northampton we were larking about in the garden with a bat and ball. Suddenly large flying things were coming out of the ground and flying into the trees. They left holes in the grass where thy emerged from. We never did find out what they were. I have never seen any thing like them either before or since. They made a lot of noise and appeared to have a body shell like. Any ideas anyone.
22:20 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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was it a cleg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly
22:21 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Alien bugs???
22:22 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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If it was a horse fly as on your link annie, they are to be avoided at all costs - Hubby got badly bitten on his hand by one two years ago it turned very nasty (the hand not the bug!) :)
22:24 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Been on the bottle sher ?
22:25 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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yeah they are not nice - my OH used to work in forestry and had a few nasty bites - we've come across a few from time to time and Oh says he'd rather get stung by a wasp than have a bite from a cleg.
22:26 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Could have been Annie. Large, noisy, out of the lawn, even frightening but never found out.
22:31 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Micmac, they were probably maybugs or chafer bugs, as the larvae live on roots.
22:35 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Wow, didn't realise people were so pro-bug. It was a skinny, long flying thing, it is dead, end of.
22:40 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Its now snug as a bug in a rug ................. :)
22:46 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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Can't resist this for you Sherr - enjoy it, its sweet really!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vzp3PW_5w
22:48 Sat 14th Apr 2012
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It may be dead Sherr, but it's family is coming looking for it. Be afraid, very afraid.
22:50 Sat 14th Apr 2012

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