Back from my Dacha where I captured this trophy... but only on camera... what is known as the May Beetle (or bug) in Russia and something else elsewhere.
They flew in yesterday -- must have been having their "flight" -- and were knocking against the lamp on the porch and the lighted windows -- big and crunchy... made tremendous noise crashing into those things so I turned off the light.
It is a large animal.. for a beetle... but not too scary.Check out the "seven leaf" antennas -- it is a male bug.
About to take off -- spreading its wings
When there are a lot of them (like in the past times before pesticides) they are definitely an agricultural pest. But there are not many of them anymore. On the other hand, the fact that there are still some proves it is not too bad with ecology around where my dacha is.
Bonus: my dacha watch and clock -- a Komandirskie and AChS-1V, an aviation clock, used as a desktop clock.
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