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Post by Bugman on May 24, 2011 8:49:01 GMT -8
Hey guys  yesterday I found the first Lucanus cervus cervus (Germany) while flying. It's a male 55mm. I heard people saying that they have found them 2 weeks earlier than me, but now I got one and in a few weeks they fly in masses. What about the others?  |
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Post by Entomofou on May 24, 2011 10:22:41 GMT -8
First record in France this year: 7/IV/2011... Really early!!!
Stéphane
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Post by johnnyboy on May 25, 2011 4:10:46 GMT -8
A week ago I found one female Lucanus cervus and one Dorcus parallelipipidus within a few feet of each other at the side of the road here in South East London. They seem to come out in the evenings when the sky is overcast.
Johnny
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Post by thanos on Jun 13, 2011 6:02:42 GMT -8
Yesterday I made my first trip(for this year) for L.cervus here at a Quercus forest of C.Greece,where I've found the biggest population of this species here,with some giant males of 80+mm in the population.Worth to note that inside this population I find males with 4(typical of ssp. c.cervus),5(intermediate) and 6(ssp.turcicus) parts in the antennal club,occuring due to possible interbreeding between the 2 ssp. The ones with 4 parts in the club are the most commonly found in this population.
Well,the weather was rainy and quite cold for the season,so I didn't find any alive specimen,but I found really MANY dead and freshly-eaten by birds ones..! With some really huge heads/mandibles !Some,although had only the head and prothorax left,were still alive and opening the mandibles.. Birds must really do damage to this population..!They prefer to eat the biggest males(cause they offer them more food),and the giant males are the ones that the females prefer to mate with,most of the times.. And after they say you about the collectors..I collect no more than 10-15 specimens there each summer,while I see so many(+100) eaten by birds ones,almost each time I visit this place !
I will select a good,sunny and hot noon-afternoon to go there in these days,and I hope will be successful..
Thanos
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Post by johnnyboy on Jun 13, 2011 13:40:03 GMT -8
This evening, here in our street of South Eastern Greater London, I saw several cockchafers (Melolontha melolontha) flying around a conifer together with a big male stag beetle (L. cervus) that was flying around a street lamp.  I have seen a female lesser stag beetle (Dorcus parallelapipidus) and a female L. cervus. Sometimes I used to see four or five male stag beetles around the base of the street light outside my house. However, since the local council changed the mercury vapour lamps with low energy lights they don't attract insects like they used to. Johnny |
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Post by Bugman on Jun 16, 2011 8:45:19 GMT -8
My currently biggest male of this year's season is 66-67mm. I think I'll get some 70-75mm+ males this year. Last year I found the first Lucanus cervus on 18th June, so this year they are flying almost 1 month earlier. Here is a picture of the 66-67mm male. Attachments:
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Post by Bugman on Jun 16, 2011 8:47:11 GMT -8
And a picture of a huge female, 47mm Attachments:
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Post by thanos on Jun 18, 2011 20:24:03 GMT -8
Yesterday I collected 8 L.cervus (7males + 1 female) here,in a Quercus forest of C.Greece ! 3 of the males are 75+mm,while one is close to 80mm ! I have them alive in my room right now -very beautiful big ones ! The largest male I've collected here is +82mm(and one +81mm),but it's hard to find alive males in this giant size,although I have seen many huge heads in the forest(which indicate sizes of +80mm),from eaten by birds males. Thanos |
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Post by thanos on Jun 19, 2011 15:19:23 GMT -8
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Post by thanos on Jun 19, 2011 15:20:41 GMT -8
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Post by Bugman on Jun 2, 2012 2:09:58 GMT -8
I found the first one of this year on 29th of May. He is 61 mm big. Attachments:
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Post by simosg on Jun 2, 2012 4:07:44 GMT -8
Where in Germany do you live that you can find such a lot of them? I live in the very Southwest, where they are extremely rare. This year I have found a nice 65 mm one at 27. May. The last time I found one here was when I was a child, ca. 25 years ago. Hannes Attachments:
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Post by Bugman on Jun 3, 2012 3:00:06 GMT -8
He looks very nice for 65 mm  Mine don't have such big mandibles and heads in this size, here they start to be "impressive" at 70 mm+ Ich wohne in NRW, in der Nähe von Aachen |
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Post by Bugman on Jul 14, 2013 3:13:44 GMT -8
Due to the weather here in Germany it seems that the season came a few weeks later this year. I found 73 individuals so far.  |
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Post by Bugman on Jul 23, 2013 6:24:09 GMT -8
I broke some size records this season: The smallest male I've ever seen, only 32 mm!  And a very big female of 47 mm.  |
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Mine don't have such big mandibles and heads in this size, here they start to be "impressive" at 70 mm+
