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June, 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 Hk-Oxe (Oak Ox). It is sup- 




Fig. 446.—Common Stag Beetle ( Lucunus cervus). 
























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. 
