Saw This Wee Beastie On My Path.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://ibb.co/7YB5q88
...anyone identify the species? He's about 60mm long.

[jazzgirl]

Yes, a lovely Stag Beetle

[Atheist]

Maybe a female stag beetle.

[Atheist]

On the other hand; has he got a penis?

[vulcan42]

why would he have a penis on his other hand?

[pastafreak]

Stag beetle is what I thought...and I've only seen them a few times.

[jazzgirl]

Has it even got hands ?

[ToraToraTora]

Jazz, funny I thought stag beetle but they normally have a large mandible like protrusion. So a female then? right!

[jazzgirl]

We have quite a few that drink out of the bird bath :)

[jazzgirl]

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/135837/view/male-and-female-stag-beetles

[Tilly2]

Nice little thing, isn't it?

[choux]

Possibly the Lesser Stag Beetle, TTT. Check out here:
"It can be distinguished from the male stag beetle by its smaller jaws and distinctively knobbed antennae, and from the small-jawed female stag beetle by its all-black wing cases."
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/lesser-stag-beetle

[ToraToraTora]

yep that looks pretty conclusive jazz.

[jazzgirl]

These are their larvae usually foun under a rotten log or, as in our garden, under a rotting tree trunk

https://ptes.org/9-top-ways-to-help-stag-beetles-in-your-garden/kerry-hall-stag-beetle-larvae/

[ToraToraTora]

choux, thanks, I think it looks more like the female stag in jazzgirl's link.

[jazzgirl]

https://ibb.co/HpFbGd1


my beetle :)

[ToraToraTora]

is it the same one you see again and again?

[jazzgirl]

Well, possibly ....It has the same evening habits......who knows? ;)

[Tilly2]

I'd say it was Paul or possibly Ringo.

[Tilly2]

Please please me and don't tread on it Ken.

[ToraToraTora]

sounds like you've had a hard days night tilly.