ID my beetles

[mushiking]

I have 2 beetles. I think they're cockchafers. My mom got them in the province here in the Philippines. My maid said that they like to fly. They're brown. They make a sound with they're antennae. Also they try to act like they're leaves when people are around. Also they're brown. Last can anyone give me a care sheet for them.

 

[calum]

cockchafers? lol.

 

[crpy]

cockchafers? lol.

Sub species of bush trimmers

 

[bigdog999]

The cockchafer (or may bug, as it is colloquially called, or sometimes billy witch or spang beetle, particularly in East Anglia) is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae. Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of "mass flight", it has been decimated in the middle of the 20th century through extensive use of pesticides and has even been locally exterminated in many regions. However, since a change in pest control beginning in the 1980s, its numbers have started to grow again. As they don't tolerate pollution well, their presence is usually a marker of low pollution levels.

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

The cockchafers is considered a pest and I haven't seen a care sheet, quite the opposite indeed

 

[mushiking]

If the cockchafer is a European beetle then why did my mom find 2 here in Asia?

 

[calum]

mabye it isn't a "cockchafer".

pics?

 

[Mat]

There are a lot of small brown chafers out there, if they are is from the Phillipines then it unlikely to be a "Cockchafer" as we know it in Europe. A picture might help but it is probably not possible to identify them to species.

Matt

 

[mushiking]

How do I post a pic. in a thread?

 

[mushiking]

I uploaded a picture to the arachnogallery.

 

[myrmecophile]

Besed on that picture it looks like some sort of elaterid beetle, (Click beetle). Definitely not a scarab of any sort though.

 

[mushiking]

The click beetles have thin antennae my beetles have the antennae of a cockchafer.

 

[calum]

do they chafe when you hold them?

 

[crpy]

do they chafe when you hold them?

Maybe if you put em in your pocket.

 

[mushiking]

What does chafe mean?

 

[crpy]

What does chafe mean?

To scrape or being chafed as in scraping bark off a tree.

 

[myrmecophile]

Not all elaterids have thread like antennae, please post a pic of the head and antennae.

 

[mushiking]

When they're handled their antennae will make a sound.