Stag Beetle/ Vliegend Hert.Veluwe

Stag Beetle The scientific name of Lucanus cervus is this word, plus cervus, deer.

Male stag beetles use their jaws to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites in a manner that parallels the way stags fight over females. Fights may also be over food, such as tree sap and decaying fruits. Despite their often fearsome appearance they are not normally aggressive to humans.

Female stag beetles are usually smaller than the males, with smaller mandibles. As larvae, females can be distinguished from males by the presence of cream-coloured, fat ovaries visble through the skin around 2/3 down the larva's back.

The larvae feed for several years on rotting deciduous wood, growing through 3 larval stages until eventually pupating inside a pupal cell constructed from surrounding wood pieces and soil particles. In the final larval stage, "L3", the grubs of larger species, such as Prosopocoilus giraffa, may be the size of a human finger.

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[roadhogede]

Erg bijzonder ik heb ze zelf nog niet in het echt gezien.

Zijn waarschijnlijk erg zeldzaam op de Veluwe?

Gr Ton

[borninfreedom]

@roadhogede Het vliegend hert is behoorlijk zeldzaam maar soms kom je er een aantal tegelijk tegen en dat is dan geweldig om te filmen.

[roadhogede]

@borninfreedom

Ze leven toch als larve alleen van rottend eikenhout ?

[borninfreedom]

@roadhogede Ja, dat klopt.

[Larselars]

Cool...hmmm what that vasp did there ha ha ha I think the film was good...beautiful insects..threes and music and well...cute fotograperesse ....



[borninfreedom]

@Larselars Hi, the vasp was eating the Stag Beetle because his lower part of the body was eaten away by a bird [woodpecker] I think. I know that the fotographeresse is cute, she is my wife.

Greetings Nico

[GiantCorey]

I like how that little scorpionfly was pestering the stag beetle, and he's just like, "Whatever, man".

[chiprommel]

I will search for these beetles in North Eastern America where I am. I know we have them here and I am a hunter... I can not believe I have never found one! I have a specimine collection as well...butterfly and moth... But I want to start a Beetle collection as well. NICE VIDEO!!!

[chiprommel]

I will search for these beetles in North Easrern America where I am. I know we have them here and I am a hunter... I can not believe I have never found one! I have a specimine collection as well...butterfly and moth... But I want to start a Beetle collection as well. NICE VIDEO!!!

[Primetec64]

Kunnen ze bijten?Steken?

[FloraFaunaNL]

Mooie opname! Ooit een keer gezien in Italië

[borninfreedom]

@hertenbosch Hi, het blijven bijzondere ontmoetingen met zulke grote insecten.