To panic about what the hell this is in my garden? Pic attached

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what on earth is this? Is it dangerous?

I also hear them called billywitches in Suffolk

May bug! 2 days early to the party! Harmless but massive and very noisy/scary when you encounter one

Coincidently summat is crashing into my kitchen door right now-it'll either be one of these things or a hornet!

We used to call them June bugs. They are loud and buzzy, clueless and clumsy and dive bomb you. They are very gentle, bumbling beetles.

Google: In the UK, "June bug" is most commonly referred to as a cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha)

Leave it be. It won't hurt you. I take a great deal of juvenile glee in talking about cockchafers.

What a beautiful beetle 😍 I hope you were kind to him OP

Those saying June Bugs, are you northerly?

It's the little bright red ones you have to watch out for on your lilies at this time of year, they will chomp through the lot in a day or two.
Not to mention those gooseberry bush caterpillars that also chomp the lot later in the year.

Doodlebugs are so lovely 😍

Ringo?

Yip it turned out to be one of these! I'm fighting the urge to pick it up, but I don't think I dare.

We had exactly the same issue last night, luckily ours was also a cockchafer and not a hornet, the dog was going nuts!

@YoureMyWifeNowDave I bet! They are so loud against the door. It kept trying to climb up and then falling over and getting stuck on it's back 😆I managed to put it in a box and take a pic but it hasn't uploaded for some reason.

Cockchafer

Don't think its a roach. I've seen these before in my garden but don't know what they are.

Cockchafer?

Awww a beautiful May bug.
Please be kind to him & leave him be.

Absolutely not a cockroach. I live in a country where they are common. It's a beetle, not a cockroach.

It's only dangerous if you're a cock.

Agree. I'm not sure it's a june bug either.

Cockchafer, also known as Maybugs. Not harmless, their larvae before they turn to beetles live in the soil and are huge creamy white things and eat roots of grass and stuff.

Horrid when the beetles fly and accidentally bump into you though!

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/beetles/cockchafer-beetle/

Oooh, I wonder if it's going to be one of their big years?

I used to live somewhere with a huge old cherry blossom tree and one year, there were so many of them doing their mating flight (and the males look amazing with their yellow feathery antennae, by the way), it sounded as though we were under bombardment as they all pinged off the windows that night.

Should have said not Harmful!

It’s a cockchafer. Totally harmless. Only live for 2-3 days and very dim when flying!!