The size of an adult stag beetle is influenced by the quality and amount of food it had access to as a larva. The smallest males are about four centimetres long. Even so, male stag beetles are usually ...
Stag beetle larvae feed on dead wood, using their sharp jaws to scrape and extract splinters from the fibrous surface. Because they exclusively eat dead wood, they do not pose a threat to living ...
It is rare and found only in certain areas of southern Britain. Stag beetle larvae spend four to six years feeding on rotting tree stumps and other decaying wood that is in contact with the ground, ...