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Lucanus placidus - male

Lucanus placidus - Male
City garden with sandy soil, Central Minnesota County, Minnesota, USA
June 16, 2005
Size: 30 mm
The size is excluding the mandibles, which are quite different from the Lucanus capreolus.
Many thanks to Dr. Frank Guarnieri for helping with the identification.

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New lawn
My husband and I recently dug out our old lawn and hydroseeded. One month later, our neighbors were leaving our house and saw, what they thought were huge cockroaches all over our tree lawn. When we went outside, there were huge beetles all over. The beetles were just in my yard, and there was about one hundred per night, for about 4-5 days. I have never seen anything like them! I saved one to show our friends that won't believe how big they are!

 
addition to new lawn
We live in Cleveland, Ohio.

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