Stag Beetle?

[OtherBusiness]

Hi all, any beetle experts? This landed on the patio earlier - is it a stag beetle? If not, is it dangerous? Pincers look a bit dubious! Thanks!

[DoctorX]

OtherBusiness said:

Hi all, any beetle experts? This landed on the patio earlier - is it a stag beetle? If not, is it dangerous? Pincers look a bit dubious! Thanks!

Yep, not dangerous. Quite cool

[OtherBusiness]

DoctorX said:

Yep, not dangerous. Quite cool

Great, thanks very much!

[bexVN]

Oh wow, lucky you, love anything like this

[Promised Land]

Rather than start a new thread does anybody know what this is?

I get about 5 in my garage every day, usually about dead upside down and slowly moving their legs, also one or two grub worm things every now and then, I take it that's where these come from originally but not sure what it is.

Always in the same area, I have looked for signs around there but nothing noticeable

The closest beetle I could get was a garden chafer, pretty sure it isn't a roach as there is no food or water in the garage and the antennae don't look anywhere near long enough for one of those.

[ellis427]

i'll tell you all about them for a copy of your desktop background

[balders118]

Promised Land said:

Rather than start a new thread does anybody know what this is?

I get about 5 in my garage every day, usually about dead upside down and slowly moving their legs, also one or two grub worm things every now and then, I take it that's where these come from originally but not sure what it is.

Always in the same area, I have looked for signs around there but nothing noticeable

The closest beetle I could get was a garden chafer, pretty sure it isn't a roach as there is no food or water in the garage and the antennae don't look anywhere near long enough for one of those.

Looks like a maybug to me. Often seen dead and gooey. Not sure on the worm thing tough.

[paulrussell]

ellis427 said:

i'll tell you all about them for a copy of your desktop background

Same here

[jimmy156]

I wouldn't say its a maybug, they look more like this (check the antennae)


IMG_6759 by jimmyb156, on Flickr

Garden chafer seems unlikely too as a bit of googling shows their grubs are white. I'm stumped on that one, got any better pics?

Top one is definitley a stag beetle, very cool!

[Promised Land]

Someone suggested a rain beetle.

The numbers are dropping, 2 or 3 a day is all there is usually.



The background is this

Edited by Promised Land on Saturday 30th June 18:23

[ellis427]

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