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 ...

Beneath Spike the Beetle’s shiny exoskeleton beats the tiny heart of an equally tiny artist. Well, actually, stag beetles don’t have hearts. But if there’s one thing this stag beetle does have, it’s ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The humble ginger root could be the key to conserving the UK's largest and most spectacular terrestrial beetle -- the stag beetle. Ecologists have developed a series of new methods to monitor stag ...

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But now numbers are falling in many parts of the UK, with loss of woodlands thought partly to blame. The People's Trust for Endangered Species wants the public to record encounters with Britain's ...