Giant stag beetle
The giant stag beetle is a long, flat, dull black beetle. The males have huge jaws that look like the antlers of a deer, with little teeth inside and a fork at the tip. In big males the head and jaws can be almost as long as the rest of the body.
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Fun facts
The biggest males are over 11 centimetres long with their jaws, longer than a grown-up's finger.
The mother lays her eggs in the underground part of fallen oak trees.
Its larva lives for about a year, munching rotten wood.
In Asia and Europe, many people keep it as a pet.
There are more than 20 different kinds of it, living on many different islands.
Most asked questions about Giant stag beetle
?Can a giant stag beetle hurt you?
It is not dangerous, but a big male can pinch hard with its jaws.
?What does a giant stag beetle eat?
Grown-ups drink tree sap, and the larvae eat rotten wood.
?How big does a giant stag beetle get?
Big males can be over 11 centimetres long with their jaws. Females are smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dorcus titanus
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1835
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lucanidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Serrognathus titanus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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