Children since antiquity have played with cockchafers. A German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. The European cockchafers belong to this genus. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. In freshwater areas, large insects may be caught, such as beetles, cockchafers and moths. In some areas and times, cockchafers were served as food. Male cockchafers have seven "leaves" on their antennae, whereas the females have only six.