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Model of fighting stag beetles
Model of fighting stag beetles
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The Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) is Britain's largest insect. The male has enormous jaws that resemble antlers on a stag's head. Although they look fearsome, they are harmless. They use their massive jaws to wrestle with other males when looking for a mate. The Stag Beetle is now rare and endangered in Britain due to a significant loss of woodlands where they live and in addition because dead or decaying wood, which is the stag beetle larvae’s food source, is removed from forests by people.
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Female (left) and two males of the Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) from the collection of the Manchester Museum.
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