The stag beetles are part of an enormous ecological web associated with timber that is, in forestry parlance, “over-aged.” If you are fortunate enough to have timber on your land, leave as many dead ...

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Different animals exhibit all kinds of different behaviors when searching for mates in the wilderness, but perhaps one of the most fascinating belongs to that of the male stag beetle. The stag beetle ...

Q: I found this critter one evening near an outdoor light at a feed store. It was banging into the light repeatedly. It didn’t hurt my skin when I picked it up and it didn’t try to bite me. What is ...

2015-08-11 11.31.12 - Close-up.jpg Male stag beetles use their mandibles to wrestle over mates. The larvae are important in the recycling of nutrients in decaying trees. (Clay Wollney) Since they ...

Flying and running take considerably more work for a male Cyclommatus metallifer (left) than they would in a short-jawed world, computer simulations reveal. Saddled with the weight of his giant ...

Stag beetles' love of ginger could be a key ingredient in the effort to conserve Britain's largest known terrestrial beetle, a study suggests. Researchers found that ginger-baited traps would lure the ...

Beetles are some of the most diverse animals in the world, with around 400,000 known species living in a wide variety of habitats. They are famed for their particularly hard exoskeleton and powerful ...