Trialling times for cockchafer

I got an urgent summons: “There’s a monstrous insect on the couch in the dining room, some kind of beetle, will you do something about it?” 

It wasn’t a monster, it was a cockchafer and they’re insects I’m rather fond of so I carefully coaxed it into a glass tumbler, admired it for a few moments then released it outside.

Cockchafers can fly, although when you see their bulky bodies at rest this seems a little unlikely, but they’re not very good at it because they continually bump into things.