Hi Bill, you posted back in June of 07' about an animal eating your butterfly bush. Did you ever figure out what it was. I have a 2 year old beautiful butterfly bush that is being mutilated a little at a time every night. I set out a cage trap with apples in it and this critter manages to eat the fruit with out setting the trap every time. I'm thinking it is a very light animal. The bush is 5 ft high and it climbs the branches and strips them and then cuts off the branch and hauls it away. Would love to know if you had any luck finding out what it was eating yours. Thanks Lilia Poway

A stag beetle, Lucanus. Don't know which species are found in your part of the world. Tucker

Thanks. The teeth look similiar...but the skull isn't the same... My little sister has multiple deer skulls (along with Whitetailed young&old) and they dont look the same. Its not a coyote, cat and obviously not a bird...or human (which is good)

Ha! It’s not showing for me, either. Kinda O/T, but I look at the insects ID board sometimes, and there will be threads like this — “Hi, can someone tell me what this bug is? It was in my [room]”! Always cracks me up. I just want to make up a name, “Oh, no. What you have there is the Bitimus stingbug. Not good. Can you call someone to come get you? Immediately.”