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Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, male 1, female 2, eggs deposited in rotten oak a, 4-year-old larva b, nymph c, rhinoceros beetle, Megasoma actaeon Scarabaeus actaeon 3,4, and European rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, male 1, female 2, eggs deposited in rotten oak a, 4-year-old larva b, nymph c, rhinoceros beetle, Megasoma actaeon Scarabaeus actaeon 3,4, and European rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, male 1, female 2, eggs deposited in rotten oak a, 4-year-old larva b, nymph c, rhinoceros beetle, Megasoma actaeon Scarabaeus actaeon 3,4, and European rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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