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Topic: Stag Beetle
Posted by: Delilah Hall
Date/Time: 22/06/15 11:09:00

Great news Stuart! You are helping preserve this beautiful creature. The larvae eat rotting wood (and will stay for years in the same old tree stump if it is big enough!) and the adults will eat rotting wood but they move on to nectar, leaves, flowers etc.
The adults only live a few months but in that time they have found their mates and hopefully laid eggs underground (near or in rotting wood again) to start the whole cycle off again.
We need more old rotting tree stumps if future generations are to see these fantastic beetles.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Stag Beetle21/06/15 20:52:00 Andrew Parkinson
   Re:Stag Beetle21/06/15 21:30:00 Jill Merrett
      Stag Beetle21/06/15 22:53:00 Delilah Hall
         Re:Stag Beetle21/06/15 23:37:00 Janet Norman
            Re:Re:Stag Beetle22/06/15 00:10:00 Delilah Hall
               Re:Re:Re:Stag Beetle22/06/15 08:53:00 James Doggett
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Stag Beetle22/06/15 09:41:00 Stuart Kerr
                     Stag Beetle22/06/15 11:09:00 Delilah Hall
                        Re:Stag Beetle22/06/15 11:34:00 Philippa Bond
                           Re:Re:Stag Beetle22/06/15 12:30:00 Delilah Hall
                              Stag Beetle04/07/15 21:29:00 Delilah Hall
   bump n/m06/07/15 02:32:00 Catherine Steele
      Re:Stag Beetles -  please report sightings06/07/15 10:16:00 Ireen Esmann

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