Metallic stag beetle
The metallic stag beetle shines like metal, in black, brown or gold. The males have enormous jaws that look like a pair of antlers. They use them to wrestle other males.
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Fun facts
Males fight by jousting with their jaws. The loser gets thrown off the tree.
Its jaws have special feelers that tell it how hard it is biting, so it does not break its own jaws.
The big jaws are so heavy that the males cannot run well, so they fly to get around.
How big a male's jaws grow depends on how much food it had as a larva.
Scientists study it to learn how boys and girls of the same animal can look so different.
Most asked questions about Metallic stag beetle
?How big is the metallic stag beetle?
Females are about 2 to 3 centimetres long. Some males, with their huge jaws, reach 10 centimetres.
?Does the metallic stag beetle bite?
It can pinch hard with its jaws if you grab it, but it is not venomous.
?Can you keep a metallic stag beetle as a pet?
Yes, people do keep it as a pet, because it is easy to look after.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclommatus metallifer
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lucanidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cyclommatus metallifer (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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