{"id":2663,"date":"2016-07-19T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2016-07-30T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:46:08","slug":"lesser-stag-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Stag Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put out the moth trap in my garden in Hemsworth last night, expecting a good catch because of the warm, humid conditions. As well as the usual moths, an interesting beetle flew into the trap.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2665\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2665\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2665\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Lesser stag beetle (Dorcus parallelipipedus)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-1-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-1-600x400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lesser stag beetle (Dorcus parallelipipedus)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I identified it as a male lesser stag beetle. This species needs rotting wood on which its larvae can feed. It is described as common but this is the first that I have seen in my garden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2664\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2664\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2664\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Jaws on lesser stag beetle.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-2-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lesser-stage-beetle-2-600x400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaws on lesser stag beetle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put out the moth trap in my garden in Hemsworth last night, expecting a good catch because of the warm, humid conditions. As well as the usual moths, an interesting beetle flew into the trap. I identified it as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[273,272,274],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}