Although the distances covered by the cockchafer may not be great, the regularity of the phenomenon is characteristic of true migration. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Cockchafer, sometimes called the May Bug, is the commonest and has the largest grub of the six species, that can grow up to 50mm and has a big appetite to match. |
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