Beetles

The effect it has on the beetles is extraordinary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In both appearance and behavior, they're closely related to the flesh-eating beetles from the remake of The Mummy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The use of freeze-dried beetles is a dead give away. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The collection of beetles is somewhat larger, but still is nothing remarkable. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Friggin Japanese beetles, I love my rose, and they're eating it, even the flowers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the following Sunday, they had Doc working it into a prophetic conference, and in a board meeting the following month, Pastor Fell had indicated that he had a friend quite willing to appear from outer space in a sleigh or any other conveyance drawn by sheep, reindeer, goats, cats, stag beetles, or porpologulous rhygmachomps providing he was subsequently proclaimed king. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The questions all begin to bleed together, and I find myself wanting to talk about quasars or stag beetles or plate tectonics or just about anything at all except my books and writing. ❋ Ericmvan (2009)

If we do keep up with the recent sunny pattern in the Flakes, the beetles will be a problem on top of the already mildew that has set in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps he should have stuck to entymology which had been his passion as a youth and to which he had devoted every spare moment, catching exotic butterflies with a net, pinning the living cabbage butterfly caterpillars with large, sharp pins, killing stag beetles with ether, the long-drawn-out agony which he used to eagerly observe through a magnifying glass... ❋ Eric Dickens (2009)

If it was a bird, it was a big, greedy one, and one that did all of its hunting during the evening or at night (as this is the only time when stag beetles fly). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology: What killed the stag beetles? ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Mustelids are out as, again, there are none in the area at all, and this goes even for badgers Meles meles which will eat stag beetles given the chance. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Bats are out, as the only bats in the area are pipistrelles Pipistellus*, and they are way too small to tackle stag beetles (if you like bats see the previous posts: one on Greater noctules, one on Ghost bats). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Any more than two stag beetles wrestling in the grass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cats will eat anything, including stag beetles, but I find it hard to accept that even the greediest cat would catch and consume six large beetles in the same small area. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

I suppose some owls might eat stag beetles: the only own in the area is the Tawny owl Strix aluco. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)