Maybugs - NOT amateur radio

By Jost Jahn - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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Two things today got me thinking of cockchafer beetles. As a child, these were a regular sight on May evenings in the UK and I recall one morning (May 1960?) when we had about 50 caught in spiders webs.

I spotted a dead one earlier today. Also I read in the paper that the nickname of the bumble bee was dumbledore, which I always assumed was the country name for the cockchafer beetle. Apparently, that is the doodlebug, so there you go!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer