Found this large bug lying around the house - how & when he arrived I do not know.
Anybody any idea what it is? I think it is a 'cockchafer'.
The cockchafer, colloquially called Maybug, Maybeetle, or doodlebug, is the name given to any of the European beetles of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae.
Once abundant throughout Europe and a major pest in the periodical years of "mass flight", it had been nearly eradicated in the middle of the 20th century through extensive use of pesticides and has even been locally exterminated in many regions.
However, since pest control was increasingly regulated in the 1980s, its numbers have started to grow again.
