Last night's visitor (still the right month, just)

[Staghound]

We've had a few of these crashing about the place the last few nights.

One of my favourite British insects, they always seem quite friendly somehow. Clumsy and noisy devils though

 

[sandbender]

Great photo

The wikipedia entry is worth a look, I was particularly entertained by this quote...

"In 1320, for instance, cockchafers were brought to court in Avignon and sentenced to withdraw within three days onto a specially designated area, otherwise they would be outlawed. Subsequently since they failed to comply, they were collected and killed."



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