Male (top) and Female Western Hercules Beetles, Dynastes granti.
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA.
Photographer: Alexander Wild.
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Comments
These are beetles that we kept for a while in captivity during last year's monsoon, and we'd taken to calling this particular male "The Jock". Lots of horn and muscle but not much brain. He got himself into a predicament one morning when he hooked his front legs on his horn and couldn't get them unstuck.
Posted by: myrmecos | April 1, 2007 4:42 PM