Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Insect 1


This giant bug I found is a passalid beetle that lives in the rainforest. These bugs are usually found in wet tropical and subtropical areas and they like to feed on decaying wood. When I saw the beetle I wanted to see how big it was and it was about as big as the palm of my hand.I could tell where they had been because of the saw dust at the bottom of the log. Everyone of them I've seen have been black and all the same size.

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