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.
Beetles are the most common type of insect in the Amazon rainforest in South America. Relative to its size, the Hercules beetle is one of the strongest creatures on Earth. Insects, spiders, worms, and other invertebrates (animals without a backbone) make up 95 per cent of animals in this layer of the forest.