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Lucanus cervus
Bee carefull, this beetle may tweak you harmful. This beetle is a bit dirty due to its living place nearby a sand bank of the Danube. Normally the beetle is darb brown. The femal beetle does not have these long mandibles.
Normally in the forest. This one I spotted a the bank of the Danube, but you can find there a lot of big trees too.
Spotted on Jun 12, 2011
Submitted on Jun 13, 2011
6 Comments
Thanks Cindy, Julius and Elsa for the nice comments.
Awesome pictures!
Fantastic photos of this guy. Have you seen 2 males fighting? :D
Quite menacing looking!
Thanks. They are about 8 cm long and if you are sitting somewhere and suddenly these beetles apear you jump up for second :-).
Fantastic photos! Scary little creature.