The Asiatic
rhinoceros beetle or coconut
rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) is a species of pest found in tropical countries.
Caption: The horns of
rhinoceros beetles are one example of the elaborate armament found in nature and described in Animal Weapons.
The
rhinoceros beetle, Strategus aloeus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Searabaeidae) is a pest in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin; Areeales: Areeaeeae) plantations in the Americas.
Edible insects like Rhynchophorus phoenicis (Coleoptera curculionidae) and Analeptes trifasciata (Coleoptera scarabaeidae), snout beetle and
Rhinoceros beetle, respectively are species that damage palms.
Ng, 1969) as well as in oil palm plantations for the control of the
rhinoceros beetle, bagworm, termites, nettle caterpillar and bunch moth (Mohd.
Since that time, there have been several revisional works of various taxa that incidentally included Pakistan, e.g., Balthasar (1963a-b, 1964) for Scarabaeinae (dung beetles), Keith (2001) for some Melolonthinae (chafers), Endrodi (1985) for Dynastinae (
rhinoceros beetles), and Miksic (1976, 1977, 1982, 1987) for Cetoniinae (flower chafers).
Banded mongooses feed on a wide range of prey species, including prey items with hard shells, such as bird eggs or
rhinoceros beetles. They crack these encased food items open in one of two ways, either holding them in place with their front paws and biting them open or hurling them against a hard surface such as a stone or tree trunk to smash them open.
Dung stag and
rhinoceros beetles don't use their strength to destroy their opponents.
Behavior of young
rhinoceros beetles, Oryctes rhinoceros.
In-between you also get to get some extreme close up footage of thorn bugs, a pair of
rhinoceros beetles playing sumos for the attention of a female and an ant surfing a raindrop.
PCA-Eastern Visayas Regional Manager Joel Pilapil told reporters here that that his office has already noticed infestation of surviving coconut trees by coconut pest
rhinoceros beetles.
Some of the animal kingdom's showiest extremes, from deers' antlers to the outsized horns of male
rhinoceros beetles, may be natural insulin meters.
