I was lucky to capture this close encounter between a male and female European stag beetle (Lucanus cervus). You can clearly see the difference between the male’s large mandibles and the female’s ...

Beetles are some of the most diverse animals in the world, with around 400,000 known species living in a wide variety of habitats. They are famed for their particularly hard exoskeleton and powerful ...

This is a female European stag beetle equipped with a radio transmitter in order to detect oviposition sites. The paper is openly accessible at: <a target="_blank ...

With more than 350,000 described species, and many more still waiting to be discovered, beetles are among the most diverse and resilient creatures on Earth, thriving in nearly every environment from ...