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What is this? (Repost) (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/cutebugs@lemm.ee
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Sorry I accidentally deleted my last post. I appreciate the answers the two people gave.

This is some big larva I found and the head looks centipede-ish but the body is short and fat with less legs.

I went through my images and found an old photo of a beetle that was on my screen door. Maybe it's a larva for one of these?

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Last night there was a post about this. According to the post, at the time of naming "cock" was a word referring to size and "chafer" is the type of bug.

I did not fact check this, but it is an explanation I find preferable to the alternative.

edit: The name "cockchafer" derives from the late-17th-century usage of "cock" (in the sense of expressing size or vigour) + "chafer" which simply means an insect of this type, referring to its propensity for gnawing and damaging plants.

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