STAG BEETLES FOR EVERYONE has been up since May 2000, it been through well over a dozen flight seasons, a considerable experience. However, the site has grown from its humbling origins in the most disorganized way. Over the years many new pages have been added here and there.
In order to control its increasing entropy, I have decided to record here the site updates; mostly the new pages, this in case they vanish, or get totally ignored by visitors.
June 2016:
- The page is about a new stag beetle species:
April 2016:
- The page is about lesser stag beetles:
March 2016:
- The page is about a rather special nest:
January 2016:
- The first page of year is about a rather special behaviour:
January 2015:
- The first page of year is about cardinal beetle larvae and soft-shelled slugs:
November 2014:
- A new page was added to Stag beetles and culture:
October 2014:
- A wonderful update of the Life cycle.
August 2014:
- New page about false widow spiders as predators of stag beetles:
March 2014:
- New page about comparative overwintering strategies of three beetles during their larval stage:
November 2013:
- New page and video focusing on their mating behaviour:
April 2013:
- New page:
November 2012:
- New pages focusing on their internal organs which had a knock-on effect on the Glossary:
June 2012:
- New page:
May 2012:
- New page:
- Updated the following pages:
October 2011:
- Closed the Stag beetle “larval incidents” in private gardens survey.
September 2011:
- New page:
- Updated the following page:
Spring 2011:
- New page:
- Updated the following pages:
January 2011:
- Updated the following pages:
CV - added a paper co-authored with my husband
October 2010:
- Introduced a new section: Stag beetle pupal stage which includes two new pages:
April-May 2010:
- Reorganized the Stag beetles and predators section & uploaded a new page:
- Created pages with video links to my YouTube posts:
January 2010:
- Added a new page co-authored with Paul Hendriks How stag beetle Lucanus cervus larvae feed, this a replacement of an earlier page entitled How stag beetle larvae eat. Many thanks to Peter Fremlin for the English corrections and comments.
December 2009:
- Added quite a few new references to the pages What's on and What do stag beetles eat?
September 2009:
- Stag beetle “larval incidents” in private gardens - A new survey, only 100 entries. Please, participate!
January - March 2009:
- Complete site reorganization, at last!
Uploaded new pages:
Stag beetles and culture
Corvidae pellets
Stag beetle conservation
October 2008:
- Uploaded a new life cycle diagram drawn by Carim Nahaboo, see here. Again, a million thanks to Carim for his beautiful drawings!
May 2008:
- Uploaded video clips in YouTube.com, all about larvae.
February 2008:
- New pages:
Stag beetles and frogs
- Videos - under construction
- Stag beetle life cycle drawing - beautiful art work by Carim Nahaboo.
December 2007:
- New pages:
Lollipop - a novel stag beetle habitat
- How to build a lollipop
- King Alfred's cakes (Daldinia concentrica)
- Stag beetle and dead snails observations
- Added a new picture to What do stag beetles eat?, courtesy of Gerrit Rekers.
- How stag beetle Lucanus cervus larvae eat - by Paul Hendriks who wants to share his very interesting observations.[PDF, 0.9MB]
- The Flying Stag Beetle, by Maria Fremlin, The AES Bug Club Magazine, December 2007. [PDF]
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