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Re:Stag Beetles -  please report sightings

www.stagbeetles.co.uk/reportasighting.htmReport a Stag Beetle sighting. If you have seen a stag beetle or a stag beetle larvae then please let us know. It will help us build up a population overview.

Ireen Esmann ● 3865d9 Comments

That's fascinating and just compounds my guilt at getting rid of the bit of rotten buddleia trunk that was sitting at the bottom of the garden.  I shouldn't have allowed myself to be overruled.There is more interesting stuff here:http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/

Philippa Bond ● 3849d

We have stag beetles at Northfield Allotments. One plotholder found several  larvae in his compost bin and we usually get sitings of adults on the plots. We encourage all our plotholders to report sitings on the http://ptes.org/campaigns/stag-beetles  site.We are very proud to have our stag beetles. Stag Beetle Larvae eat wood for around six to seven years before emerging as adults. So, we leave wood to rot in the hedgerow and as part of our volunteer days we  built some loggeries in the Radbourne Walk to give them something to chew on.  Here's a link to a post I did about it a while backhttp://www.projectdirt.com/project/12506/#!/journal_entry/29886if you're interested in the allotments (and our other wildlife) we are having an open day on Saturday 15th August (2pm-5pm) entrance is free. I'll be doing a tour (around 3pm) and happy to show you our loggeries.Christina FoxChair Ealing Dean Allotment Society

Christina Fox ● 3850d

That was kind of you Michael :)

Emily Heath ● 3861d

We moved a stag beetle to safety on Sunday at the Acton Gardening  Association's allotments on Bromyard Avenue. I haqve observed several over the years, as with other precious wildlife. Our allotments protect nature

Michael Wale ● 3861d

Blimey - they (stag beetle larvae) are absolutely huge!Several pictures on Google of them filling an adult palm.I've never seen one but I think if I had I would have been mildly terrified.Never seen one and yet we have several areas of excellent stag beetle larvae habitat which we rarely if ever disturb in our garden.probably why we see the adults from time too time I guess...  [Doh!]

Tony Colliver ● 3861d

We usually spot one crossing the patio in our garden (north of the Uxbridge Road in West Ealing) every three years or so.Not seen one this year yet.Wouldn't recognise a stag beetle larvae if it ran up and bit me![Off to get myself edumacated on what stag beetle larvae look like.]ps - we have slow worms and always have done (24 years).  Spotted one (a very large one!) warming up under an old dustbin lid in the garden a month or so ago.

Tony Colliver ● 3861d

Larvae spotted earlier this year in back garden Meadvale Road W5 together with more recent sightings of live beetles in the street.

Alan Henderson ● 3861d

Thanks Ireen - I have seen two dead adults this year. In the Northfields/Hanwell area.

Emily Heath ● 3864d

I haven't seen a stag beetle for years.

Gerry Tan ● 3865d