Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/02/06/learn-about-the-hercules-beetl.html
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You forgot the video link!
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I admire your attention to this detail.
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I love articles like this, but I call BS on the 850 times it’s body weight thing. A little googling shows that a typical male Hercules beetle weighs 85 to 100 grams. 850 times that is 159 to 187 pounds. Come on.
There’s this:
which led me to this:
(look for the PDF link).
Plus, ~160 pounds?
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Have Eastern Hercules Beetles come around the yard, along with Giant Stag Beetles, and these buggers are absolutely mesmerizing in the wild. “What did you do this weekend?”“Oh, spent about 3 hours watching a giant bug crawl on my wood pile”.
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A little googling suggests the estimate is off by roughly an order of magnitude.
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Nothing about the softness in its eyes, iron in its thighs, virtue in its heart, and fire in every fart? Too short a video.
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