Cottonwood stag beetle
Lucanus mazama
The cottonwood stag beetle is a stag beetle from the western United States. Like other stag beetles, the males have big jaws that look like a deer's antlers. You might even find one in the wood chips at a playground.
Lives in
The western and south-western United States
Can it hurt you?
Better not touch
It can give a pinch with its jaws if you pick it up. Just watch it and let it walk away.
What does it eat?
Like other stag beetles, its larvae grow up in old, rotting wood.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Cottonwood stag beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is often found in the wood chips that cover the ground at playgrounds.
2
It can live in dry desert areas, but it is not stuck there.
3
Its jaws look like the antlers of a stag, which is how stag beetles got their name.
you asked
Most asked questions about Cottonwood stag beetle
?Does the cottonwood stag beetle bite?
It can pinch with its jaws if picked up, but it is not dangerous. Just watch it.
?Where can you find a cottonwood stag beetle?
In the western and south-western United States, often in the wood chips at playgrounds.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lucanus mazama
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lucanidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lucanus mazama (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 sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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