Algida
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Stag Beetle on an Apple Tree

Hi,
Have you ever seen a stag beetle?
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My Cox's got a guest.
It seems that I'm not the only one liking apples. It's a bit early though. I'll tell him to come back in September. :)

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:shock: :shock: :shock: I would have a real hard time gettin that one in the soap bucket. That might be a job for the resident man!

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Aren't they just great Algida.
Getting very rare now.

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He's so....weird.
If ignoring the size and looking at the head, he looks like a stag hiding in a tree :D
And those antennas... he's communicating with Alpha Centauri :lol:
Men in Black needed.

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:lol: I'm seeing what you are seeing and agree with you 100% bring the Big Gun not the tiny little one :lol:

Thanks for sharing this photo. :-()

JONA -- long time ago and far far away, I collected these and rhino beetles too for summer project. Sad to hear that they are declining and regretting the careless way they were treated. :(

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Wow! I would like to see one in real life someday.

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We leave old tree trunks piled up in a copse on the farm to try to encourage Stags.
This spring I've seen the odd female ...but no males yet.

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I think they are very cool and I would never kill one, but I don't know that I could bring myself to get close enough to figure out whether it was a boy or a girl! :)

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It's easy RG,
the girls have no antlers!

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If you were wondering how he's doing: still in the tree.

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I think I woke him up.
Well... celebrity demands sacrifice.
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Some great pictures! I was expecting something less spectacular based on the title. This is such an amazing creature. I had never seen a beetle like that before so I looked it up. Apparently the antlers are a male characteristic and the size of the antlers vary from one beetle to the next.
Most people are creeped out by spiders and things, but not me. I adore them. Thank you for this.



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