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New to wildlife gardening. Let’s start with stag beetles!

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  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 684


    We have a good few of them in our garden. But they are only seen for a very short period in early summer. The seem to live in our grape vine. 😄
    Surrey
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,268
    Fab pic BBS. I'm very jealous  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,621
    treehugger80 said:
    wish i could get stag beetles, but in North Yorkshire i'm too far north :neutral:
    That seems a bit odd, they've been reintroducing them to denmark which is further north and colder in winter, and I have personally found them here right up in the north of denmark where apparently they do not exist... Hard to miss though as I'm used to them from hampshire!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,268
    Could it be habitat as well though Skandi?
    Perhaps they've just not been logged anywhere as being seen, too. :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • joe.shimminjoe.shimmin Posts: 210
    I’ve found quite a few more beetle larvae while digging 40 holes for our hedge today. I think now that they’re junebug larvae as we had loads of them in the summer. Well I’m still gonna plant a load of wood in the hope of stag beetles!
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    Skandi said:
    treehugger80 said:
    wish i could get stag beetles, but in North Yorkshire i'm too far north :neutral:
    That seems a bit odd, they've been reintroducing them to denmark which is further north and colder in winter, and I have personally found them here right up in the north of denmark where apparently they do not exist... Hard to miss though as I'm used to them from hampshire!
    I think its the combination of cold and wet and little habitat that stops them spreading north in the UK
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,268
    That was my thinking too t'hugger.
    I think it's also the reason we get less damage here from things like leatherjackets -  they don't cope with the winter weather very well. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • joe.shimminjoe.shimmin Posts: 210
    My Portuguese laurel hedge is in, all 40 rootball plants at 6-7 feet were put in in a day. That’s a lot of digging! I’ve taken on board what was said about diversity and have bought a few trees to go in between the laurel. I’ve gone for one each of rowan, crab apple, hawthorn, bird cherry and Kansan cherry. I’ll let them grow as hedge trees above the height of the hedge.
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,466
    We had stag beetles until some ar****le got rid of a massive tree stump that wasn't in anyone's way so that he could put up a fence that will be rotten in a few years.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • joe.shimminjoe.shimmin Posts: 210
    I guess that he was unaware that he was causing a problem.
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