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                                                15th January 2018, 06:55 PM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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					This talk of glove boxes and the things that get in them reminded of me of back in the 70s when I worked on Bougainville Island. A couple of us fitters were down at a pump station and another fitter came in with the Tojo and shouted out "Come and have a look at this thing" and we went over and saw the biggest beetle any of us had ever seen hanging off the glove box. 
 The thing must have been at least as long as a big hand and about 3" across with huge bulging eyes and nasty looking jaws plus long "antenna " waving around.....
 One of the locals we had with us said it was a "bee beetle" and we asked why......"because it sounds like a bee when it flies" he said!
 "That thing flies?"!!!! We were horrified.
 But he took hold of it and put it on a bush and off it went with us big strong blokes all cowering away in case it dive bombed us.
 Helps being mad when working in the bush. 
 AlanH.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
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