{"id":1745,"date":"2009-09-09T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T23:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/09\/female-lesser-stag-beetle-or-is-it-a-stag-beetle\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T23:14:59","slug":"female-lesser-stag-beetle-or-is-it-a-stag-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"Female Lesser Stag Beetle (or is it a Stag Beetle?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We found this rather large beetle on the bedroom floor a few weeks back, which was a bit unexpected. However it seemed to be on its last legs and by the look of it was a bit gunged up with spider web and carpet fibres. I can&#39;t make up my mind whether it&#39;s a stag beetle or lesser stag beetle, though it&#39;s definitely a female. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/maria.fremlin.de\/stagbeetles\/photos_dp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some decent pages<\/a> out there trying to help in making this identification, but it&#39;s still not quite clear to me. If I had to put money on it I&#39;d go for lesser stag, because it&#39;s very black and seems to have some sort of ridges on its forelegs. I wish I&#39;d paid greater attention to the size at the time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a5b4b523970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"StagBeetle\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340120a5b4b523970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a5b4b523970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found this rather large beetle on the bedroom floor a few weeks back, which was a bit unexpected. However it seemed to be on its last legs and by the look of it was a bit gunged up with spider web and carpet fibres. I can&#39;t make up my mind whether it&#39;s a stag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}