- What are you waiting for boy? A woman, Nicklas Jansson, asked this as he sat among the oaks in a pasture in the Brokind district one summer day many years ago and hoped to see oaks.

"They won't come until ten past ten," said the woman who lived on the site.

And since then, insect expert Nicklas Jansson's "remember" and recommendation to anyone who wants to see the big humming beetles.

- Ten over ten on the 10th of June!

See in the clip above the intense summer of the ecox.

After five years, the hardwood deciduous trees have been boiling down in the dark, the transformation takes place. Up the echo excavates the light and the sun.

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After five years in the stump he becomes king of the forest Photo: Lena Liljeborg / SVT

Here's how to help them

If you, as a landowner, can open up your pastures with little glitter and not fill them with spruce, then it benefits the echoes.

- And as a regular landowner, you can dig down hardwood wood in the ground and make eco-crops, an “eco-compost”, says Nicklas Jansson.