cockchafer

noun2

1. •
   Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.

   • His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees. — 1886
2. •
   Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.