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 鈥楤ilderbuch 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.