The reddish-brown or common stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus) that is very common here on Staten Island is one of the three better known members of this insect family native to North America.

Beetles aren't often recognized for being particularly charismatic bugs, but an encounter with this incredible stag beetle ...

Visitors to Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common could be forgiven for thinking that mounds of decaying wood which have appeared are rubbish waiting to… ...

A: Insect expert John Lee says it’s a great example of a male stag beetle. It doesn’t use the sharp mandibles to eat but to wrestle other beetles when trying to win the favors of a female beetle.

That's the going price for some of the 15-odd species of Cape mountain stag beetles in the genus Colophon, ... so they may be more common than is supposed." ...

Photographs by William Guth of a mountain stag beetle from Sabeh, East Malaysia (left) and a New Guinea spotted longhorn beetle. The actual beetles on display represent the beauty and complexity of ...

Stag beetles used to be as much part of a British childhood as the Chopper bike and power cuts. But now numbers are falling in many parts of the UK, with loss of woodlands thought partly to blame ...

In total last year 9,334 stag beetle sightings were recorded, and after Hampshire the highest numbers were Greater London (1,781), Surrey (1,277), Berkshire (876) and Dorset (754).