The Stag Beetle Hunt
Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World archives. In this programme recorded in 1999, Lionel Kelleway joins Jonathon Spencer and Roger Key in search of stag beetles.
Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World archives.
When Living World presenter Lionel Kelleway was a boy, his exploration of the New Forest was enhanced by the sheer volume of stag beetles filling the air on warm summer evening; obeying that most ancient of urges to find a mate.
On a similar warm summer evening in 1999 Lionel returned to the New Forest where, in Denny Wood he joined forest manager Jonathon Spencer and ecologist Roger Key in search of Britain's largest terrestrial beetle, the stag beetle.
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- Sun 26 Jul 2015 06:35Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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