Will spring must be on its way.I had one of those horrible things with wings flying around my kitchen.Now im to frightened to go in there.i wish someone would get up and deal to it.

"Horrible thing with wings">>>>> Linda Mc Cartney

Will i got brave and got the huge net and caught it,then fed it to my frogs.Who loved it.Its those big Beatles i really hate with big prickles on their legs.Some one told my they bite.and they are so hard to kill.Hate them they send me running around screaming.

Will i got brave and got the huge net and caught it,then fed it to my frogs.Who loved it.Its those big Beatles i really hate with big prickles on their legs.Some one told my they bite.and they are so hard to kill.Hate them they send me running around screaming.

I put a box full of heavy books and stuff on one and a couple of weeks later it was still alive.

they bang round hitting the walls real horrible things

Oooh! i like beetles, you can shoo them my way

If its a huhu beetle like with the mean chompers i think they can bite and id be worried they may harm the frogs? but could be wrong

never heard or seen of them... sound cool though! (coming from someone that used to collect scorpions in S.A) lol

ignore my last post :oops:

just lookin a wiki and seems the huhu beetle is edible but im sure these have nippers as they were flying in here around last xmas, - i cut nippers off and fed to beardies lol wikipedia had this to say "They are edible, and are said by some to taste like buttery chicken (although opinions differ)" so should be swt its just the nippers that look nasty, im sure ive seen someone say they give a mean bite to.

did you taste test it :lol:

ignore my last post :oops:

just lookin a wiki and seems the huhu beetle is edible but im sure these have nippers as they were flying in here around last xmas, - i cut nippers off and fed to beardies lol wikipedia had this to say "They are edible, and are said by some to taste like buttery chicken (although opinions differ)" so should be swt its just the nippers that look nasty, im sure ive seen someone say they give a mean bite to.

did you taste test it :lol:

Your right you can eat them in the grub stage.No a bad taste,not some thing i would get into.I would have to be real hungry.When i see them in the beatle stage i run. :lol:

Hmmmm not sure I have seen a Huhu Beetle, but those darn November Beetles are a nuisance with their random darting around the room, enough to give ya the tata's :lol:

tata's

haven't heard that one before afrikan

I've been bitten by huhu beetles, it draws blood. they lie on their back perfectly still so you pick it up throw outside cos you think its dead and it grabs you with its legs and has a munch

Last time i had one in my house.I screamed for my son to help.Fat chance of him helping.He does not like them either.We let the poor dog at it.The horrible thing latched on to her lip.I will be armed with a tennis racket this time.

friends of ours went camping years ago and woke up to find a huge huhu beetle jammed up his nosrtil!it was that far up he could not get hold of it to extract and his wife had to get it out in bits with a crochet hook,all the while she was trying to get it out he swears he could feel it knawing right up in his nostril!!true story.

Last time i had one in my house.I screamed for my son to help.Fat chance of him helping.He does not like them either.We let the poor dog at it.The horrible thing latched on to her lip.I will be armed with a tennis racket this time.

Should have let a cat have it. Several times when one of my cats was still an outdoor cat I'd find him sitting munching on a huhu with nothing but the head and two long antenna sticking out of his mouth.

slightly off topic, but still bug related

I saw this great recepie for chocolate chip cookies with meal worms - am now very keen to try it

and i have meal worms too!!!

my flatmates better watch my baking carefully in the future

friends of ours went camping years ago and woke up to find a huge huhu beetle jammed up his nosrtil!it was that far up he could not get hold of it to extract and his wife had to get it out in bits with a crochet hook,all the while she was trying to get it out he swears he could feel it knawing right up in his nostril!!true story.

tht would really get up my nose :lol: but seriously stuff that yikes

November beetles?? In southland we have January beetles..

I wonder if they are the same thing..

Should have let a cat have it.

lol cats are funny when they find them for the first time. they sniff them and the beetle grabs their nose and the cat freaks, especially if it stays holding on. they cant help coming back for another look though

sounds abit like my dogs with bumble bees - ive seen atleast one get bitten but still they cant help them selves :lol: