Big Brixton Beetle!

[Mrs Magpie]

Unfortunately the Stag Beetle in the Dürer represents evil....it may do in the Flegel painting too, but I have always thought of it as being partial to spring onions and herring..I don't see any insects as evil....I have always loved observing them....it's to do with having a narrow field of vision I think......though I never encountered a cockroach till my late twenties...can't stand those and they do make me shudder...

 

[lang rabbie]

Going even more wildly off thread...

Mrs M - that seems to be at variance from a dusty label I vaguely recall translating with my fractured German some twenty years ago in a Viennese museum. I took it to mean that the beetle represented Christ.

This would seem to be backed up by the article Beetles as Religious Symbols in the must-read Cultural Entomology Digest Online

Edited to add: the original post was backed up by some fairly pissed Googling in the wee small hours of the morning, but Cultural Entomology Digest is a surprisingly good read sober !

 

[Mrs Magpie]

ooh, the teacher who explained the whole Dürer picture to me at school was wrong! I am so pleased about this....I've always had a really soft spot for Stag Beetles.....

 

[laptop]

She "went to live on a farm in Wales'' many years ago.

That'd be my Dads Cousin Alex's farm, all my childhood pets live there...

That's odd. So do mine.

Must be one hell of a fine cat-herd, that Alex...

 

[laptop]

Very worrying when you put your foot down and here a soggy sort of squelch.

Please try not to:

The stag beetle is a globally threatened species, protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as amended, and listed as a priority species for the UK and London Biodiversity Action Plans.

Its distribution has contracted in the last 40 years, although it is still locally common in a number of ‘hotspots’ such as the New Forest, the Thames Valley, around north-east Essex and London. It is believed that the destruction of its key habitat - dead wood - through the ‘tidying-up’ of woodlands and parks is the prime reason for its decline, although in urban areas the impacts of traffic, feet, cats and other predators will also be significant.

http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/cons/stagbeet.htm

 

[fanta]

It fancies you.

It's about time my luck changed.

 

[honestjon]

you lot are fucking nuts!!! if i saw any of those creatures i'd be fucking freaking out!!! they are creepy.

 

[jd]

This would seem to be backed up by the article Beetles as Religious Symbols in the must-read Cultural Entomology Digest Online

Only on U75!

Hang on though - isn't direct linking frowned upon in the FAQs? Board war with Cultural Entomology Digest Online now!

 

[IntoStella]

It's about time my luck changed.

Don't fancy yours much.

 

[lang rabbie]

Only on U75!

Hang on though - isn't direct linking frowned upon in the FAQs? Board war with Cultural Entomology Digest Online now!

Sadly, www.insects.org doesn't appear to have a bulletin board.
Apologies that I forgot to include an ironic smilie at 1 in the morning.

 

[theBEAST666]

There's big fuck off ones as big as bats just off brixton hill. Make a crazy buzzing noise as they attack. watch out.