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| Stag Beetle |
 Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetle in the family Lucanidae. Some species grow to 8 cm (3¼ in), but most are about 5 cm (2 in).The English name is derived from the large and distinctive mandibles found on the males of most species, which resemble the antlers of stags. A well-known species in much of Europe is Lucanus cervus, referred to in Britain as "the" stag beetle (it is the largest British terrestrial insect). Pliny the Elder noted that Nigidius called the stag beetle lucanus after the Italian region of Lucania where they were used as amulets. 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, but despite their often fearsome appearance they are not normally aggressive to humans. Stag beetles are sometimes used in the Chinese sport of insect fighting. Female stag beetles are usually smaller than the males, with mandibles in normal proportion for a beetle. The larvae feed for several years on rotting wood, growing into grubs which in larger species may be as big as a human finger. Trackback(0)
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Alí
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Tiene la fuerza de un TORO  |
dunno
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go stags!@ |
kant0t
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go!!!!!!!!!!!! stag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
Mitchell
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GO STAG BEETLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
Maricon
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ès uno puto cabron!!! |
-mook-
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Stag beetles pwn but I want to see a better fight like a stag beetle vs a orthopteran. When are new fights going to be posted? |
chuvanes s s s
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that is not stag beetle its rhinoceros beetle and it is not fair because the spider is too big for the beetle       :-  |
henshin
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one of them is a caucausus u dumbass |
isai
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forget the beetle the scorpian ruls if they put a black african scorpian the beetle would be so dead he wont even know it |
bug
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goooooooooooooooo staggggggggggggggggggg goooooooooooooooooooooo |
jetpack
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STAG FTW. |
bugfighter
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any scorpion would have to get extremely lucky to pierce a stags armor.. in my opinion a large male stag would pwn any scorpion |
AFATLITTLEGIRL
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I love stags i usually catch them during the summer and they last until winter if you feed them the right stuff. |
RAPEDDEADBABY
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I also catch them they dont live too long for me. what do you feed them |
turtle108
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just like knights in suits of armour!! these beetles can kick anyone's ass!!! |
naked dave
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stag beetle owns! |
Darrell
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Big fan of the stag beetle, when I was young my neighbors tree in his back yard is where we discovered them and often times we go back there to catch some. The best is taking a male beetle and placing it on top of the female beetle and you see the male's beetle's orgin curve out to a half circle to enter the female. Guess we were into insect porn as youths.. lmao |
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