On Sep 14, 11:58 am, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article .com,Des Higgins writes:

|
| Calosoma is a genus of carabid (hunting) beetles one or two of which
| are very big (over and inch; but again nothing like 3 inches) which
| are found on trees and are big and green? Try googling them and maybe
| put "UK" in the query to avoid seeing madagascar genital wasps or
| australian pit lice.

I can't find either of the latter two by googling! Are you inventing
species? They sound fascinating :-)

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

I was trying to imagine the kinds of beasts that Steve Irwin might
have tackled had he been a creepy crawley hunter. Imagine a guy with
a butterfly net made from chain mail sneaking up on a big green shiny
thing the size of a tennis ball and being very careful because:
"these little fellers will take yer arm clean off at the elbow if
ye're not careful"