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?

It's a shield bug, perfectly harmless 😁

Cockchafer, when they decide to knock on your windows at night you'll think it's a bird trying to get in!

May bug. Or cockchafer

John, Paul, Ringo or George?

It’s a may bug. Huge but harmless. When I was a teenager one flew into my long hair and got tangled. Wish I could say I removed it calmly and carried on with my day but that would be a lie 😂

This is my favourite post of the day.

It’s a Chafer, probably a Cockchafer but there are various types. Harmless and beautiful.

Also known as May bugs, as they tend to all hatch on one evening in early Summer .

Looks like a May Bug which,I think, are the beetles that hatch from chafer grubs. These live in the lawn and destroy the roots of the grass - we are overrun with the little bastards!

Ha, I moved from England to Scotland and was confused by the wee beasties 🤣

It's just a beetle! Go to r/beetles on Reddit and ask if you want the species.

A word of advice. Never go to Australia😂

Good lord, it's an ordinary beetle. Leave the wildlife alone.

Are from East Anglia? I have read most of the thread expecting it to be identified as a Billywitch, but now I’m wondering if that name is very regional!

Not a May bug. Looks nothing like it.

Cute

It looks like a May bug

Well I'm assuming it isn't John or George so maybe Ringo or Paul?

About 45 years ago I lived in Clapham and was walking across Clapham Common one warm evening in early May when there was a mass hatch of cockchafers like you wouldn't believe, thousands of them taking flight at once. This was closely followed by panicky screams from all the other walkers on the common who clearly thought they were under attack from aliens or the deadly Blood Sucking Big Buzzing Hair Ripping Beetle. I was studying zoology at uni at the time and thought this was the most wonderful thing I had ever seen, but I was definitely in the minority.

Melolontha, is the scientific name - Maybug, Cockchafer, Beetle. Scarabaeidae family.

Nope. Sorry it’s too big. I hate flying buzzing things and for completely irrational reasons they scare me. I did have one outside my front door last night, thought it was a hornet, was only mildly reassured that it was a ginormous face eating beetle

It's a cockchafer, also known as mesmedorme and dumbledore.i don't like them much, great big, clumsy, noisy things. It's out a bit early, usually appear mid-May to end of June. Entirely harmless, but they make me shriek and run.

Why on earth would it be dangerous? It’s a beetle, not a werewolf.

I think it’s a stag beetle, they live in rotting wood, not dangerous and a protected species. I have them in my garden, they sometimes fall on their back and can’t
turn onto their front so I always help them.

Ffs it’s a May bug 🙄