I have just found a European Stag Beetle

[skipper734]

Where did you find it unc. As it seems to be a male it's probably no good for a date.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I invited him out Saturday night but he turned me down.

I released the beast in a wooded park in Southwick.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Fantastic find.. photograph it and let it go. I have only ever seen two in my life, they are rare so let it go somewhere safe to do what it has to do.

This is your chance to become an eco-hero don't blow this like everything else you touch

Such compassion. I am touched

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Find another one, you can have a European Stag Party

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Find another one, you can have a European Stag Party

Very good Ross.

8.6

 

[vegster]

I invited him out Saturday night but he turned me down.

I released the beast in a wooded park in Southwick.

Well done Uncle, you have gone up a small and almost insignificant notch in my book.Nonetheless, a notch. I hope this feeling of pleasure and satisfaction of a good deed done will propell you to greater things.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Find another one, you can have a European Stag Party

ps Will there be a house band involved?? Can't think of a suitable one, for the life of me.


* Puts juicy worm on hook; & awaits bite *

 

[perseus]

 

[perseus]

Stag-o-Lee

It was early, early one morning
Boys I heard my bulldog bark
He was barking at the two men
Who were gambling in the dark

It was Stag-O-Lee and Billy Lyon
Oh they gambled ... very late
Every time Billy Lyon ?? easy way??

Stag-O-Lee lost all of his money
Boy, then he lost his brand new Cadillac
He said I believe you be cheatin' Billy
Don't be here when I come back

Stag-O-Lee went home
And he knocked up on his woman's door
He said wake up Luberta baby
And hand me my 44

You know Bertha jumped out of bed screaming
And she was looking in Stag-O-Lee's eye
She said come on inside honey
I can see some poor man gon' die

Then Stag-O-Lee told Bertha
That he had lost his Cadillac
But he believed Billy was cheating
And she knew that he didn't go for that

Stag-O-Lee went back on the corner
And he stood up in the barroom door
He said "don't nobody move
'Cause I got my 44"

Stag-O-Lee cried "Billy Lyon!"
And he shot the poor boy so fast
The bullet went through Billy
But it broke the bartender's glass

Then Billy Lyon started to screaming
I heard him say "Stag-O-Lee don't take my life,
You know I got 2 little children
And a poor little sickly wife"

Stag-O-Lee told Billy
Yes I know you got a cute boy and girl
But if you wanna see your family
Billy meet 'em in another world

 

[Deleted User X18H]

It is the biggest beetle I have ever seen. I phone up the Booth museum and they said they were rare and to release it.

It seems a shame I make make him my new friend.

He seems harmless enough but looks like he could remove my leg.

Is it a man or lady Beetle

 

[perseus]

The two above were found in Shoreham recently.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Thats the one although its abdomen was blacker. It was a male European Stag Beetle nearly 3 inches long.

 

[perseus]

Helpline:

stagbeetlehelpline.co.uk

Southwick males are not so handsome as Shoreham ones.