look who i found

i was just picking up some old plastic sheeting laying about and there she was pure beauty i relocated here to a more wild part of the garden with an old rotten wood pile http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee3/mattfev20/stagbeetleandmoon011.jpg

 

Awesome! That's a monster of a beetle! :D

 

It's a he matt, Stag beetle (lucanus cervus) the girls don't have the antler like jaws,great picture.:thumb:

 

the jaws are only small we get males as well in the same place i released this one fingers crossed i'll be able to get a pic of one of those soon as i see one again

 

I don't think that i would have fancies having that crawling around on my hand :eek:

 

As far as i remember they are often found around oak trees, haven't seen one for a few years.