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What is a cockchafer?

What is a cockchafer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
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We only once met with the cockchafer in Scotland, at Sorn, in Ayrshire.
Although the distances covered by the cockchafer may not be great, the regularity of the phenomenon is characteristic of true migration.
With alarming suddenness, the sound is upon me, in the room and loud around my ears as a cockchafer flies past my head and settles on the books by a lamp.
Now he wanted to know exactly how often his son had visited the cockchafer?
A close-up of a cockchafer, or May bug, earned 50-year old ecologist Dean Heward, from Derwent Valley in Gateshead, the Wildlife Image of the Year award.
He returned with him to Maltby, and there spent an hour in the cockchafer.

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