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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 Lk- Ore (Oak Ox). It is sup- 


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posed that :t eats the leaves also. It sometimes attacks insects 
Westwood says that it has been seen to descend from a tre! 
carrying a caterpillar in its mandibles. Swammerdam had on 
which followed him like a dog when he offered it honey 

