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.
The Japanese beetle is native to Japan. The insect was first discovered in the United States in 1916 near Riverton, New Jersey in a nursery. It is thought that beetle larvae got into the United States in a shipment of iris bulbs before inspections of imported goods entering the country began in 1912.