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Lucanus Cervus
Adults appear during late May to the beginning of August being most active in the evenings. The larvae go through several developmental stages (instars), taking 4 to 6 years to become pupae. The natural reaction of the beetle to an approaching large object is to remain motionless making them a good photographic subject.
Europe
About 11 cm or 4.3 inches. I saw it on my big Tree in my garden and took my chance to take some pictures. As said in the description it stood still and didn't move so it was really easy to take my pictures and it was a good model!
Spotted on Jun 14, 2011
Submitted on Jul 19, 2011
8 Comments
often live in my garden in summer, and fight among themselves for females
Beautiful Creature. Great series of photos. Thanks for sharing.
With this spotting you increased the preciousness of Project Noah objects...!!
Yeah it really is an awesome big beautiful beetle! I'm really glad you guys like it!!
Wow! That's an awesome beetle!
Whoa..must be large beetle then...!!
Well it was really really big, I think from it's bottom to the tip of it's mandibles about 11 cm or 4.3 inches.
Hey...you shown it as very Deadly... Nice work..!!
I wonder how big it is..!!!
Fantastic series of pictures...nice learning lesson for me..!!