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.
Citrus (Anoplophora chinensis) and Asian (Anoplophora glabripennis) long-horned beetles are large beetles whose larvae feed on the wood of trees. When the beetles mature to adulthood, they emerge through holes that weaken the trees further. They are extremely destructive to hardwood trees.