Just for JoJo

Knowing how much you loved bugs of all kinds, I thought I 'd share this googled picture of a male stag beetle with you. They are rare and endangered, so I think you'd probably feel you had to find it a new home rather than destroy it, JoJo. Beautiful, isn't he? The Vincent D'Onofrio of beetles!

The female I found was only just over an inch long, and they don't have the antlers that give the species its name, but it's still a whole lot bigger than most beetles you find in a British garden.
The larvae are big, white, squishy things that live in rotting wood for several years before maturing into adult beetles, so in these days of gardens preened to within an inch of their lives, it's no wonder the beetles are becoming so rare.