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	Stag Beetle Helpline - Stag Beetles
		The female stag beetles do not have the enlarged mandibles and are slightly smaller stag beetles.
		The female stag beetles show similar variation, but are generally smaller (they can be as small as 2.3cm).
		However, the stag beetle is the adult form of the species and cannot grow - smaller beetles are not younger than the bigger ones and are not capable of growing any bigger.
	www.danambrose.co.uk /Stag (159 words)

	Stag Beetles of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology
		Stag beetles are similar in appearance to the closely related Bess Beetles (Passalidae), but bess beetles do not have elbowed antennae and stag beetles do not have a horn like bess beetles have.
		Stag beetles and their larvae are food for a variety of animals, including birds, lizards, snakes, toads, raccoons, centipedes, and mustellids (weasels, skunks, etc.).
		Stag beetles are named because of the large branching mandibles, similar to those of the mammalian stags.
	www.uky.edu /Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/insects/beetles/stag/stag.htm (911 words)

	Stag Beetle - Pseudolucanus capreolus
		Relatively large beetles of the family Lucanidae are commonly known as stag beetles, after the males' elaborately branched and toothed mandibles, resembling the antlers of a stag.
		Not much is known about the feeding habits of adult stag beetles, but they are often seen flying to lights at night during the summer.
		Stag beetles are undergoing a worldwide decline, as their hardwood forest habitat is slowly disappearing.
	www.cirrusimage.com /beetles_stag.htm (301 words)

	Stag Beetle
		The stag beetle is Britain's largest insect and one of the most well-known of all the beetles.
		Adult stag beetles are sometimes killed on purpose by people thinking that they are dangerous, but the biggest threat to them, as is the case with most threatened species, is destruction of their habitat.
		The stag beetle is one of the species chosen by the Government to be included in its Biodiversity Action Plan.
	www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/stag_beetle.html (859 words)

	Bob Brown - Wielangta Landmark Trial
		Tasmania is a stag beetle hot spot with more than 30 species out of a total of around 950 worldwide.
		Stag beetles are an ancient lineage thought to have evolved with the dinosaurs over 200 million years ago.
		In December 2004, a male beetle was discovered on Coupe WT017E; this signifies the presence of a breeding population because it is the height of the breeding season.
	www.on-trial.info /stagbeetle.htm (661 words)

	Wild London
		The lesser stag beetle lacks the brownish colour of the wing cases that stag beetles usually have.
		Stag beetles are not the most agile of flyers (displaying none of the speed and accuracy of a Dragonfly for example) Their flight can even appear a little ‘drunken’ and are prone to bumping into things especially glass doors, windows and even bus shelters!
		Stag beetles lay their eggs in dead and decaying wood and the larvae hatch, live and feed in this environment for up to 7 years.
	www.wildlondon.org.uk /stag_beetle.php (809 words)

	Stag Beetle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the beetle is under no immediate threat on the European mainland, although the stag beetle has almost disappeared from a few northern states.
		The complete history of the stag beetle in Sussex has been published in detail, where all known sightings are represented and the most important records are individually referenced (Pratt, 2000).
		While much of West Sussex and the Ringmer district have been the stag beetle's local headquarters for at least a century, it is events in the north and east of the county which will probably first signal any future serious change in status.
	www.biodiversitysussex.org /stagbeetle.htm (2666 words)

	Stag Beetle
		The stag beetle is Britain's largest insect and one of the most well-known of all the beetles.
		Adult stag beetles are sometimes killed on purpose by people thinking that they are dangerous, but the biggest threat to them, as is the case with most threatened species, is destruction of their habitat.
		The stag beetle is one of the species chosen by the Government to be included in its Biodiversity Action Plan.
	www.ypte.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/stag_beetle.html (0 words)

	Stag Beetle Lucanus spp.
		Beetle groups include tiger beetles, ground beetles, water beetles, whirligig beetles, fungus beetles, rove beetles, stag beetles, scarab beetles, wood-boring beetles, click beetles, fireflies, dermestids, ladybird beetles, darkling beetles, longhorn beetles, blister beetles, leaf beetles, weevils and many others.
		In Germany, the scarab beetle in the form of a stag beetle was equated as a symbol of Christ.
		European folklore believed male stag beetles were associated with setting fire to thatched building by transporting burning embers perhaps from their lightning singed oak tree homes.
	www.insects.org /entophiles/coleoptera/cole_015.html (186 words)

	Stag Beetle - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stag Beetle, common name for beetles having long, antler-like mandibles or jaws, used in combat.
		Beetle, common name for any member of a large order of insects, the most prominent characteristics of which are the elytra—the hardened, sheath-like...
		- large beetle with outsize jaws: a large beetle the male of which has long extended jaws mandibles shaped like a stag's antlers.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Stag_Beetle.html (119 words)

	Stag beetle - Lucanus cervus - English Nature
		The spectacular stag beetle, large, shiny and fl with chestnut-brown wing cases, is the biggest European terrestrial beetle.
		Male stag beetles are most likely to be seen in flight on warm summer evenings when they search for mates.
		The stag beetle has a restricted distribution, mainly in counties south-east of a line between Suffolk and Dorset, where it can be locally common, but with outlying populations in small areas of Devon and Worcestershire.
	www.plantpress.com /wildlife/o230-stagbeetle.php (382 words)

	ANIMAL Teachers: Crawling Ones: Stag Beetle
		Stag Beetle gets the attention of a Female Stag Beetle by parading around with his head raised and his antler-like jaws (chelicerae) wide open.
		Stag Beetle Larva feeds on decaying wood and roots of tree stumps.
		Stag Beetle is a flagship species for a whole range of animals dependent on access to dead wood.
	www.funkman.org /animal/insect/stagbeetle.html (435 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Great stag hunt for vanishing beetle
		Stag beetles are not as frightening as they look...
		Armed with facts about how widespread the stag beetle is, they then may be able to work out a plan to stop it dying out completely.
		A spokesman from the Virgin record label said the band chose the stag beetle from among millions of species as the basis of a collage on the cover of their latest album Mezzanine.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/93496.stm (443 words)

	Lucanus elaphus
		The giant stag beetle is largest beetle in north America.
		Stag beetles hide during the day in all kinds of places and sometimes turn up with some attachments, see this picture of a Lucanus cervus.
		It was not surprising to gather that she is involved with the Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation.
	maria.fremlin.de /stagbeetles/usa/lelaphus.html (375 words)

	Richmond Park Flora and Fauna Stag Beetles
		The Stag Beetle is a gentle giant of the insect world.
		Despite a reputation for summoning thunder and lightening, the male Stag Beetle is entirely harmless; they may look scary to some people but their large jaws are only used to wrestle with other males and their bite is too weak to hurt you.
		With greatly reduced numbers across the UK and a European wide protection programme, the presence of Stag Beetles was instrumental in Richmond Park's designation as a National Nature Reserve.
	www.royalparks.gov.uk /parks/richmond_park/stag_beetles/index.cfm (159 words)

	USA stag beetles
		North American stag beetles are distinct from their Old World cousins one of which is the charismatic Lucanus cervus, the core of this website.
		If they aren't shaped like this antenna, then it is not a stag beetle even though it might have some very convincing pincers.
		I say this because I've had emails from the USA about the blue-margined ground beetle - Pasimachus depressus, which happens to have mandibles as well, but it is not a Lucanidae at all.
	maria.fremlin.de /stagbeetles/usa/index.html (472 words)

	Stag Beetle Project Richmond Park & Wimbledon Common
		The reality for beetles in the Park is that many of our stag beetles are eaten, mainly by birds and probably before they have a chance to contribute to future generations.
		Crataegus_monogyna) stumps was near Ham Cross and we had 36 dead beetles (or bits as discussed in the Report) associated with it.
		It may be that such chippings concealed emergence holes or that the beetles were coming from somewhere else possibly brought by birds wanting to eat them in the tranquillity of the garden.
	www.jwhs.co.uk /SB/RPSBP.html (1939 words)

	PTES - The Great Stag Hunt
		Historically, the stag beetle has been recorded throughout much of western Europe, though in many countries it is now thought to be very rare or even extinct.
		We followed this up with Great Stag Hunt II in 2002 to check that their numbers had not reduced further.
		It has taken up to seven years for this years beetles to become fully-.edged, emerge from the ground and look for a mate in their turn.
	www.ptes.org /greatstaghunt (0 words)

	Stag Beetle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The distribution of the stag beetle has been declining nationally during the past 50 years.
		The stag beetle is listed by the U.K. Steering Group as a Globally Threatened/Declining species and is protected under Annex IIa of the EU habitats Directive and Appendix III of the Berne Convention.
		The 1998 National stag beetle survey produced several unconfirmed sighting of the species in the Cheshire region.
	www.cheshire-biodiversity.org.uk /invert-stagb.htm (341 words)

	Family Scarabaeidae - The Breeding/Rearing of Prosopocoilus giraffa keisukei (page 1)
		Prosopocoilus giraffa is the longest of all 1,400 living stag beetle species.
		While a wild-caught male adult specimen of 124 mm is said to be possessed by either a German or Japanese collector, a number of sources say that 118.0 mm is the recorded maximum length of a wild-caught male adult of Flores Is., Indonesia.
		That means, for beetle breeding/rearing enthusiasts, that the male of this subspecies has a potential of growing up to 118.0 mm long or even longer.
	www.naturalworlds.org /scarabaeidae/manual/giraffa/Prosopocoilus_giraffa_breeding_1.htm (584 words)

	Stag Beetle
		Stag Beetle was created by Lord Zedd out of a drawing on a flyer for Stone Canyon's broomball team.
		Stag Beetle later battled the Rangers as a hallucination, courtesy of Lord Zedd's monster Trumpet Top.
		Stag Beetle, the real one, was later resurrected by Finster to assist Rito Revolto in ambushing the Thunder Zords.
	www.angelfire.com /alt/kaijuplanet/StagBeetle.html (226 words)

	Images of Dorset - Stag Beetles (Lucanus Cervus)
		In an attempt to map the current distribution of the beetle a national survey of sightings was carried out in 1998 as part of the stag beetle Biodiversity Action Plan.
		The beetles have clearly been able to adapt to the variety of trees and shrubs that can be found in this urban habitat – and have been observed using the privet hedge (which runs along the upper edge of the garden) for mating.
		UK Safari: Stag Beetles – part of a much larger site covering UK wildlife with monthly guides to what is out and about across the country.
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk /StagB/stagover.htm (720 words)

	Threatened Species - Broad-toothed Stag Beetle
		Current status: The Broad-toothed stag beetle (Lissotes latidens) is listed as endangered under Tasmania's Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 and the Federal Act.
		The broad-toothed stag beetle is the rarest of these beetles.
		Another threat to the beetle's log supply is from forestry practises in which whole coups are clearfelled and then re-sown.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /threatened/beetle.html (376 words)

	Richmond Park Flora and Fauna Stag Beetles
		According to British folklore, Stag Beetles summoned thunder and lightning storms, which scared the wits out of medieval peasants who also believed that they flew around with hot coals in their jaws setting fire to buildings.
		In Germany the Stag Beetle was associated with Thor, God of Thunder and there was a myth that if you placed a stag beetle on your head, it would protect you from being struck by lightening...
		Stag Beetles have a long life cycle, lasting up to seven years from egg to adult.
	www.royalparks.gov.uk /parks/richmond_park/stag_beetles/fun_facts.cfm (401 words)

	The Stag Beetle
		Male Stag Beetles can grow to more than 2.5 inches and are the longest beetle found in Britain but are usually restricted to south-east England.
		They can't inflict a painful bite as the jaw muscles are too weak, but their intimidating appearance is probably a good deterrent against enemies, and they could even be attractive to the females.
		Stag beetles do battle for the attentions of the females and for territory, but this is mainly pushing and shoving with the stronger one winning, but neither is usually hurt.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th11e(8).htm (195 words)

	Kew: A year at Kew: Places: Kew Gardens: Stag Beetle Loggery
		The stag beetle is Britain's biggest native beetle.
		This dramatic skyscraper style 'Loggery' is part of the London Biodiversity Action Plan for Stag Beetles.
		The Thames Valley is a hotspot for stag beetles and Kew is doing all it can to encourage them.
	www.kew.org /places/kew/stagbeetle.html (92 words)

	Stagbeetle request (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stag beetle road-kill surveys form part of the research being undertaken for the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, through Royal Holloway University of London, to determine not only the biology and ecology of the insect but also methods for monitoring its populations.
		Data collected over a four year period (2000-2003) strongly suggest that annual stag beetle road-kill surveys can be used to monitor the insects’ abundance.
		Stag beetle corpses are required for DNA studies being carried out at RHUL.
	www.essexfieldclub.org.uk /stagbeetle_survey.htm (331 words)

	Stag beetle - Lucanus cervus - ARKive
		The stag beetle is arguably the most spectacular looking beetle in Britain; the male looks like something from a prehistoric age.
		You are more likely to be nipped sharply by the female stag beetle, a smaller insect than the male that lacks the huge jaws.
		The stag beetle, superficially, appears fl all over but, in certain lights, it can be seen to have dark maroon or brown wing cases.
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Lucanus_cervus (189 words)

	The Beetle Ring - List of Member Sites
		Such beautiful beetles, which came to Japan from afar, will benefit if there is a place online to exchange various opinions regarding how to breed them in captivity.
		This site is all about stag beetles and has photos and slide shows of the different stages of life from egg to larva to full-grown beetle.
		This is a Flickr group for photos that celebrate the fabulous diversity of beetles in all their weird and wonderful forms.
	www.naturalworlds.org /beetlering/beetle_sites.htm (1011 words)

	Stag Beetle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The jaws are used to attract female stag beetles and for their own protection.
		The stag beetle is a brownish flish color.
		In Germany the shape of the scarab which looked like the stag beetle was the symbol of Christ.
	www.effinghamschools.com /groupone/stag_beetle.htm (108 words)

	Family Scarabaeidae - Suggested Reading
		The second book in the complete guide series details rearing the most massive North American stag beetle as well as providing general and specific info on captive breeding worldwide stags.
		The third volume in the complete guide series discusses breeding methods for scarab beetles of the subfamilies cetoniinae and rutelinae, of which there are a great variety of species and are among the most popular of beetles with insect hobbyists worldwide.
		A very beautiful work which is meticulous in detail and very well illustrated, this is an absolute must for the serious beetle hobbyist.
	www.naturalworlds.org /scarabaeidae/moretopics/Scarabaeidae_suggested_reading.htm (274 words)

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