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#526 Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha)

Always happy to see one of these cockchafers; this one coming into the moth trap overnight. It is the season right now for these big beetles, which appear in May and live for a few weeks. Not the most maneuverable of fliers, they are sometimes called doodlebugs like the German World War 2 V-1 missiles.