July 4th weekend I was coming home pretty late and I was greeted by a very cool neighbor. I ran into this guy on the back deck!!! He was super cool! It is an Eastern Hercules Beetle, a member of the Rhinoceros beetle family. Apparently they are the largest beetles in America and he was as big as he looks!
The coloring was beautiful but the two large horns and two small horns were the best part!
You can also see the fine hairs around his body.
I put him into Eli's bug box and saved him for the boys to see the next morning. They were really impressed with him. When Mama and the boys let him go he burrowed into the ground.
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