Thank you, your comment made me laugh out loud. To badly paraphrase the well known proverb, one man's delightful flying stag is another man's pestilential garden maggot.
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Stag beetle larvae pupate just under the surface of the soil and wait, often several weeks, until they somehow sense the moment is right to emerge. This leads to a build up of beetles-in-waiting and suddenly the temperature, humidity, day-length or other factors reach the trigger moment. Synchronized emergence has the benefit of hopefully making sure there are others of the right species around to mate with when you appear.
thank you Richard! We saw a few more tonight, so they are still active. We wondered why they were swarming around one particular high tree and garden, but realised the garden is almost like a small woodland area, logs on the ground, nice and dark and damp. Ideal habitat, by the look of it.
Belated thanks for your reply, Richard. Yes,that was definitely the one. Can't believe I've lived for 70 years without seeing one - definitely worth the wait!
Somebody help. The cat next door wanted to devour one, here in Bournemouth, Dorset, so I captured it. HE is about 7 cm long. Still alive, now in my house. What can I now do?
hi i live in grundisburgh near woodbridge it the 29th today and it is 9:00 pm and my mum was out side and told us that there was a stag bettle out side in the garden so we put it near some rotten wood as it likes it we think that it is probably a female as we have had a male before and the male had bigger stags
We were sorting out the end of the garden this year and unearthed various bits of builder's rubble including some bits of fence posts which contained Stag Beetle Grubs - huge white horrid looking things - we felt so guilty as they can spend years underground as grubs before pupating and crawling out as beetles. We buried the wood again and have seen 1 male and 1 female in the garden a couple of months later - sadly weeks apart so whether they found 'love' who knows !!
2 months ago i planted 2 apple trees,they are about 4ft. tallone is a cooker and looks healthy the other a cox has developed brown rust patches on the leaves.can anyone tell me what this is and how to treat it. many thanks [email protected]
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Thank you, your comment made me laugh out loud. To badly paraphrase the well known proverb, one man's delightful flying stag is another man's pestilential garden maggot.
Reply to Beetlewatchers
Stag beetle larvae pupate just under the surface of the soil and wait, often several weeks, until they somehow sense the moment is right to emerge. This leads to a build up of beetles-in-waiting and suddenly the temperature, humidity, day-length or other factors reach the trigger moment. Synchronized emergence has the benefit of hopefully making sure there are others of the right species around to mate with when you appear.
Wait until dusk, then let the beetle go crawling up a tree trunk or into a log pile.
many thanks
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