One day late last week whilst the boys were napping and I was having a well-earned break I spotted this beetle on the balcony. I realise the picture doesn’t give much scale, but it was pretty large! It seemed to have slightly caught its leg as it was unable to get away from where it was.
After quickly snapping a picture of it I found a piece of cardboard and used that to help lift the beetle a bit so that it could get free. My plan was to open the balcony glass once it was free so that it could fly away. That plan didn’t work out though because as soon as it was free it started flying around and buzzing very loudly. I am not keen on insects – they freak me out. So having a particularly large one buzzing around close to me was not fun. I might have run away…
Love,
Lady Joyful
Hmm. Not keen on those beetles…we had a mini plague of them here and one flew at my face and ricocheted off my eyeball…🐛🐜🐝🐞
Oh yuck! I’m glad this one didn’t get close enough to do that..!
Grey cat was having a stand off with a stag beetle yesterday evening.
Who won? Cats can be quite handy to get rid of unpleasant creepy crawlies. I usually try to get bugs outside, but if it’s a large spider I’m more likely to throw a cat at it 😉 Thankfully we don’t often get spiders indoors!
The confrontation was on the lawn. I took the beetle and put it in the nearby woodpile out of cat’s way. Stag beetles are getting rather rare in England but are still a bit more common around here.
…and I like beetles.
That’s a big beetle! Those ‘antlers’ are quite intimidating.
Good that you rescued it. Hopefully cat doesn’t demand a rematch!