Friday, 3 June 2011

Norfolk's Best Beetle

Indigenous to East Anglia, the cockchafer beetle may also be referred to as "a may bug", "a billy witch", "a spang beetle" or "Ian".

2 comments:

jelltex said...

I wouldn't like to guess how it got the name cockchafer.......

Sophie said...

It's a buzzywitch! Well, in Costessey in the 1980s that's what it was.