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garden chafer

Phyllopertha horticola

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Description:

Garden chafers have chestnut brown wing casings which are covered in tiny hairs. The head legs and thorax are dark green in colour, and like other chafers the antennae have fan-like flaps at the ends.

Habitat:

found in the grasses at Low common meadows, Maltby. Owned by the Yorkshire wildlife trust.

Notes:

Also known as the bracken chafer or fernshaw beetle

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PublishedJune 17, 2013

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