With as many as six people a week dying from overdoses of heroin and synthetic opiates in Broward County, county officials and drug experts met Wednesday to sound the alarm. They're unveiling a plan to deal with a South Florida crisis that reflects a nationwide epidemic. The warning is that the...
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules, Dynastinae) is a rhinoceros beetle native to the rainforests of Central America, South America, Lesser Antilles, and the Andes. They are large beetles, with some males reaching 17.5 cm including the horn, and a slightly iridescent coloration to their elytra, which also vary in color from beetle to beetle, and even depending on the humidity.
Distribution. The mountain pine beetle is native to western North America, from northern Mexico to northern British Columbia. It is also present in an isolated population of pine that is surrounded by prairie in the Cypress Hills area of southwestern Saskatchewan, which was likely infested in the early 1980s.