Comments on: Great Tips For Greenhouse Gardening

By: bizzy

bizzy — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:11:59 +0000

I am also in the South East, and was going to say it sounds like a July bug. I have just done a quick search, and it seems that a May bug and a July bug are pretty much the same thing. A huge flying insect that’s horrible. My mum said she got one caught in her hair when she was a teenager (so more than 40 years ago) and it carried on flapping so it got more and more tangled. She had to have it cut out.

Sounds like you did the right thing in getting rid of it – not sure I could have been quite so brave though!
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By: steven e

steven e — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:09:59 +0000

mayfly?
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By: Sal*UK

Sal*UK — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:07:59 +0000

Sounds like a May bug – horrid things!!!!
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By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:05:28 +0000

A huge great moth/beetle/thing in the greenhouse?
I was pottering in the greenhouse this morning and suddenly heard a really loud noise – it was a HUGE great thing trapped in a plant pot. It was nearly two inches long and an inch across and looked like a brown beetle, with hard wing casings. It had large antennae with orange furry fan-shaped bits on the end of them. Before my toddler had chance to eat it I managed to get it outside in the pot and, er, bravely tipped it into our neighbour’s garden.

Any ideas what this could have been? It looked like a huge moth, but I didn’t think they had wing casings. We are in South East England, before you start coming at me with scary great Aussie/US beasties!