New neighbor.

"Rainbow" (rainbeaux) 06/13/2019 at 06:36 • Filed to: None

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This is a female Dynastes tityus, or eastern Hercules beetle, and she lives under my door. She’s about 2.5" long. I wish it was a male , though, because those guys have horns like the regular Hercules beetle. But still, she's super cool! All they eat is rotting fruit, and my human neighbor regularly leaves his trash in front of his door for days at a time, so that's probably why she lives where she does.

Sovande > Rainbow 06/13/2019 at 06:49

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I found one of these at work a year or so ago. Really cool beetles. I guess the one I found was a male.

vondon302 > Rainbow 06/13/2019 at 07:39

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Neat I don’t think we have those in Michigan or I’ve never seen one.

But we do have alcoholic hummingbird moths.

Rainbow > Sovande 06/13/2019 at 07:40

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That’s awesome! Bugs are so fascinating, honestly. It's weird how they range from adorable to terrifying.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > vondon302 06/13/2019 at 07:57

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Sounds like more of a Florida problem.

ttyymmnn > Sovande 06/13/2019 at 08:37

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I don’t do bugs. A few years ago we went to a museum and there was an entomologist with big huge cockroaches and walking sticks and other bugs crawling on him. I asked him, “Okay, what does freak you out?”

66P1800inpieces > Rainbow 06/13/2019 at 08:44

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In the North East, we don’t large beetles (I assume because of the hard freeze). We seem to have plenty of ticks, and lately the beetles we are getting are  are Asian boring  beetles that will kill all of our trees. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ttyymmnn 06/13/2019 at 08:51

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What was his answer?

ttyymmnn > Snuze: Needs another Swede 06/13/2019 at 10:00

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“Not much.”

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rainbow 06/13/2019 at 10:50

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When I was in high school, I was accepted into a summer program where I had the chance to take a 4000/5000 level course in entomology at the University of Oklahoma Biological Research Station . We spent the mornings in the field collecting insects in different ecologic niches and the afternoon learning about arthropods. It was one of the best summers of my life.

I t sounds like you would have really enjoyed that experience too. Maybe you can find a course in your area!

Rainbow > vondon302 06/13/2019 at 15:47

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Yeah , they’re native to the southeast. It's the first and only one I've seen, so I assume they're rare. (I just googled "olive green beetle with spots" to find out what it was.)