Interesting insect in our stables this week

[Gilberdyke John]

Anyone identify this bug?

 

[pargyle]

Anyone identify this bug?

That's definitely a beetle !

 

[Erichalfbee]

Anyone identify this bug?

A Patterdale?

 

[blackcloud]

Pontefract cake

 

[enrico]

It is a rare woolly knee with a boot on the end. You often find beetles on them!

 

[The Poot]

If you hit with something metallic, does it go “dunggggg”?

 

[Goran]

Anyone identify this bug?

Dung beetle? Now You have something common with Egyptian Pharaohs?

 

[fian]

Anyone identify this bug?

There is an obvious time lag.
Either flash is now a dog or you have slowed down the video by centering the image of the beetle.
Also, there are dung beetles above the 40th parallel, aren't they tropical or Mediterranean species?

 

[Goran]

There is an obvious time lag.
Either flash is now a dog or you have slowed down the video by centering the image of the beetle.
Also, there are dung beetles above the 40th parallel, aren't they tropical or Mediterranean species?

https://www.dungbeetlesforfarmers.co.uk/dung-beetles
https://dungbeetlemap.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dump-uk-dungbeetle-general.pdf

 

[Garry R]

Probably a dung beetle seeking out any bull excrement on the forum!! Spoilt for choice?!!!

 

[Gilberdyke John]

A Patterdale?

Half right. Her father is a determined poodle so a Patter-Poo.

 

[judy12]

I think it's a stag beetle - the horns.

 

[Loxley]

I'd say its a Dor beetle (which is a variety of dung beetle). Did you get a look at its underside by any chance?

 

[deadcertie]

Dung Beetle

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Half right. Her father is a determined poodle so a Patter-Poo.

a mongrel then

 

[Erichalfbee]

a mongrel then

Actually you should put the sire first so she is a poopat

 

[Blunt Spike]

Looks like a scene from steptoe and son. Albert sitting about in a stable, in his long johns whilst wearing wellies.