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Lucanus cervus
This beetle is about 8-9 cm long. Males have really strong and long tentacles, which they use to figt over female. Females are smaller, around 3-5 cm and have just small short horns.
They live in hollow trees and dead wood, mostly oaks and maggots in ground in rotting wood.
Biggest bug of Slovakia, endangered mostly because people removing old trees.
Spotted on May 1, 2008
Submitted on Jan 21, 2012
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Amazing picture!