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Roháč obyčajný

Lucanus cervus

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Description:

This beetle is about 8-9 cm long. Males have really strong and long tentacles, which they use to figt over female. Females are smaller, around 3-5 cm and have just small short horns.

Habitat:

They live in hollow trees and dead wood, mostly oaks and maggots in ground in rotting wood.

Notes:

Biggest bug of Slovakia, endangered mostly because people removing old trees.

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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012

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