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| SOLUTION: flying deer, cervus Lucanus The flying stag or deer is best known for stag beetles ... Its name comes from the massive jaws astiformes (Shaped like antlers) of the male, as in the photo. With up to 80 mm in length, is the largest of our beetles, but there is much variation in size and some animals may be only half or one third as long. Although the male can look pretty scary with its huge "horn" is harmless. The jaws are so great that your muscles can not move with any force. The jaws of the female, much less, can give a much stronger pinch. It appears that the mandibles of the male are largely ornamental, but also believed that males are territorial and that there is a struggle to access female, in which a male has to make the other off balance, for it would use their jaws hypertrophied. After the larval stage, adult life is two weeks to a month, and in our area you can see from mid-June to late August or early September. This species breeds in tree stumps and other wood suitable putrefaction, but it seems that is becoming rare, so that in some countries is a protected species, appearing in Spain as "species of special concern." So this time not all have been right ... was not the rose beetle, perhaps another month. |
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