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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/conservation-scientists-bug-grubs.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Scientists involved in a conservation project have been bugging the homes of stag beetle larvae" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-conservation-scientists-bug-grubs.jpg" alt="Scientists involved in a conservation project have been bugging the homes of stag beetle larvae"/></a></p>
<p>Scientists involved in a conservation project have been bugging the homes of stag beetle larvae.</p>
<p>Tiny microphones are being used to eavesdrop on the white grubs which live in buried rotting wood.</p>
<p>The larvae make rasping sounds known as &#8220;stridulation&#8221; which experts believe are used as a form of communication.</p>
<p>Listening to the larvae is one new technique being tried out to get a better idea of stag beetle numbers.</p>
<p>The stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, can reach a length of several centimetres. Well known for the dramatic &#8220;antlers&#8221; sported by males, it was once common but is now classified as &#8220;nationally scarce&#8221; in the UK.</p>
<p>Stag beetles are still found in southern England but are rare or extinct in the Midlands and North.</p>
<p>Attempts to conserve the insect have been hampered by the lack of reliable population monitoring.</p>
<p>Scientists are also experimenting with ginger to lure flying beetles into aerial traps so they can be counted.</p>
<p>They discovered that adult stag beetles find ginger irresistible. It contains large amounts of alpha copaene, a chemical known to attract insects that live in dead and decaying wood.</p>
<p>The research, published in the journal Insect Conservation and Diversity, was funded by the British Ecological Society, the Forestry Commission, the People&#8217;s Trust for Endangered Species, and the Suffolk Naturalists&#8217; Society.</p>
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