Grabbed the Sweeping brush today and this little devil jumped out

I seen some monster Bugs while living abroad but never one this big here in Blighty.

Anybody ID this little Beauty? Cockroach from Sellafield?





Looked like it had wings i think. I found out while cutting it in half with a shovel

 

It is a Beetle... His name could be John, Paul or Ringo, one of those as nobody can remember the other!

 

Its dave!!!!!!!!! :dd:

 

George Harrison, Everyone knows that, dont they?

 

Maybe I should Have put this in the Muppet room with the rest of you Muppet's

 

Looks like a Maybug

 

In August? Get real man.

 

Was it dead?

 

Nope ... It was pretty quick on it's feet ... Well until It got dead

 

thats a female stag beetle i had to to a presentation when i was at coldge and for some reason i ended up doing it on thease.

they dont eat or drink and only live for about a week they spent the first 4-5 years of there life under ground as larvey eating rotting wood roots ect ect they then serface and over 5 weeks thern into what you see there the male has big horn type things they normaly come out around the june-july time so thay ones a bit late

this is a male



and this is a female



and this is what they look like under ground



tadaaaaaa lol

 

o yea they can also fly but not very well lol

 

Aye ... Glad it didnt fly on my face while taking the second pic

Could be that Bug As the house is surounded by tree's but It dont quite look like the one you posted?

And that Grubb looks Tasty ........

 

I'd go with it being a water based beetle (from it's design)

 

quick look on google for water beetles brought this up, looks a similar design and pattern. Yours has grooves obviously but did read that females run grooves so possibly a female one of these..

 

Big? looks like a normal beetle size to me? should have put a match stick or similar by it, so we had a comparison