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Living in old and rotten wood
Female
I believe this is a female stag beetle as its jaws were fairly small.
My son finds these beetles at the playground. The substrate is wood chips. ...
Medium size beetle 3 cm in length, black and with short antennas, bulky body. ...
Matte black beetle, quite large (3 or 4 cm). Very large mandibles or horns and ...
Both sexes resemble the female stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), though they are a ...
The lesser stag beetle is a large beetle with a broad head and large mandibles. ...
One of two stag beetles found in the UK, this one is smaller (rarely bigger ...