Reddish-brown stag beetle
The reddish-brown stag beetle is a big, shiny, dark red brown beetle with orange legs. The boy has long curved jaws that look like a deer's antlers. The boys use them to wrestle each other.
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Fun facts
Boy beetles fight each other with their big jaws at the places where the beetles meet and lay eggs.
The mother lays her eggs in rotting wood, where the larvae grow for about two years.
At night it flies towards bright lights.
The boy is bigger than the girl, and his jaws are much bigger too.
Most asked questions about Reddish-brown stag beetle
?Do reddish-brown stag beetles pinch?
They can pinch with their jaws if you pick them up, so it is best to just watch.
?What do stag beetles eat?
Their larvae eat soft, rotting wood inside old tree trunks and stumps.
?How big is a reddish-brown stag beetle?
It is about 2 to 3.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lucanus capreolus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1763
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lucanidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Pinching beetle
Where the facts come from
- Lucanus capreolus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by No machine-readable author provided. Kugamazog~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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