June beetles, come out here in the south every summer in varying degrees
of "lotta bugs." They lay their eggs in the ground and the larvae become
a brown headed grub that eats grass roots and other stuff.

George

Daniel Prince wrote:
Please look that these pictures and tell me what kind of beetle this
is. I see them when I work on my garden at night with artificial
white light. They are attracted to the light and fly around a lot.
One picture has a ruler showing and you can see that the one I
photographed was just under half an inch. (It got caught in my
birdbath.)

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cropped4zh.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...beetle17ow.jpg