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17-04-2007, 11:53 AM
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| | | Churchyard Beetle Question
Paul Mabbott confirmed we had some Chuchyard Beetles in our garden a few weeks back. Today I was fitting a very small water pump for my mini pond and the power box was laying on the ground. As I fixed it up a chuchyard beetle stumbled out of it's hiding place a foot or so from the power box and flipped on to it's back so I turned it the right way up and immediatly it flipped over again. We went through this process several more times and in the end I thought it was dying and put it back in the dark. Within minutes it was back again stumbling around. I turned the power for the pump off and amazingly the beetle walked off quite normally! So my question is, are beetles very intolerant to electrical currents? |
17-04-2007, 12:25 PM
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| | | Re: Churchyard Beetle Question
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Originally Posted by goosey  Paul Mabbott confirmed we had some Chuchyard Beetles in our garden a few weeks back. Today I was fitting a very small water pump for my mini pond and the power box was laying on the ground. As I fixed it up a chuchyard beetle stumbled out of it's hiding place a foot or so from the power box and flipped on to it's back so I turned it the right way up and immediatly it flipped over again. We went through this process several more times and in the end I thought it was dying and put it back in the dark. Within minutes it was back again stumbling around. I turned the power for the pump off and amazingly the beetle walked off quite normally! So my question is, are beetles very intolerant to electrical currents? | First thing I would do is get your power box checked by a qualified electrician - just to make sure there is no current leakage!
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17-04-2007, 06:51 PM
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| | | Re: Churchyard Beetle Question
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Originally Posted by thunder First thing I would do is get your power box checked by a qualified electrician - just to make sure there is no current leakage!
henrya | I only bought the pump today, so I would have thought it was OK.
I told my husband the whole drawn out story and he thinks that it could have been the vibration from the pump causing the beetle distress. |
17-04-2007, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by goosey I only bought the pump today, so I would have thought it was OK.
I told my husband the whole drawn out story and he thinks that it could have been the vibration from the pump causing the beetle distress. | Yes, vibration is the other possibility.
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