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Stag beetle larvae

Important! If you have found some larvae, please, get in touch with me. Also, I should be very grateful if you could spare a few minutes to participate in the Stag beetle “larval incidents” in private gardens survey.

Stag beetles spend most of their lives in the larval stage and soon or later gardeners in favoured areas are bound to disturb them. Unfortunately this can have disastrous consequences for the larvae if people have no idea how they look like, or what to do next.
Stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) are protected in the UK under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as amended.
So if you want to know a bit more about them, please visit the pages listed below.

Third instar stag beetle larvae. Photo by Maria Fremlin. Photo of stag beetle larvae found in the roots of a holly (Ilex aquifolium) tree felled late 2005. Photo taken by Maria Fremlin, 30 May 2007.

Stag beetles - all they need is love and wood
To ensure that one needs to plant trees all the time.
When did you last plant a tree in your garden, or anywhere else?

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