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You are just So lucky!

My moneys on it definately being a Staggy, female, but it could be "Lesser" and we wouldnt know from the photo...

 

I remember seeing my first male Staggy whirling past me one evening whilst i ate a roast chicken dinner in France.....the noise was remarkable....

After wards on the road leading from my camp site i found one dead , i still have it somewhere......

I wish they were more common......A great find mate and thanks for sharing the photos...JD

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You are just So lucky!

My moneys on it definately being a Staggy, female, but it could be "Lesser" and we wouldnt know from the photo...

 

I remember seeing my first male Staggy whirling past me one evening whilst i ate a roast chicken dinner in France.....the noise was remarkable....

After wards on the road leading from my camp site i found one dead , i still have it somewhere......

I wish they were more common......A great find mate and thanks for sharing the photos...JD

 

Talking of the remarkable noise JD, I saw my first one of these in the 70's. I was on a garage forecourt in Wales. I can only describe it as like a small motor bike going past my ear!! Unfortunately it banged into the kiosk window and hit the ground. I picked it up and put it on top of a oil cabinet, hope it came round and flew off?? Only seen a couple since, so they must be fairly rare?

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You are just So lucky!

My moneys on it definately being a Staggy, female, but it could be "Lesser" and we wouldnt know from the photo...

 

I remember seeing my first male Staggy whirling past me one evening whilst i ate a roast chicken dinner in France.....the noise was remarkable....

After wards on the road leading from my camp site i found one dead , i still have it somewhere......

I wish they were more common......A great find mate and thanks for sharing the photos...JD

more like a egg sarnie in cleethorpes :clapper::clapper:

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Yeah,probably,I havent seen one for 2 or 3 weeks,though I havent deliberately sought them out,but its not unusual to walk down the avenue and see a number of large males on the pavement. :)

:gunsmilie: Yes Mackem, i hear you go picking large black males from the pavement on a regular basis :clapper:

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You aint going to believe this,but as soon as I wrote that I thought "Uh-oh,maybe I should re-word,then I figured"Nah,f**k-it,I am only on about beetles,its others on this site who trawl pavements and avenues for homo-sapien-sexuals" :D

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