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and July, in large forests, climbing along trees and hooking 

 themselves on to the trunks by their mandibles. Charles de Geer 

 says that the Stag beetle imbibes the honied liquid which is 

 found on oak trees, a tree it particularly seeks after, which has 

 caused it to be called in Swedish Ek- Oxe (Oak Ox). It is sup- 



posed that it eats the leaves also. It sometimes attacks insects. 

 Westwood says that it has been seen to descend from a tree 

 carrying a caterpillar in its mandibles. Swammerdam had one 

 which followed him like a dog when he offered it honey. 



