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.
The parents of Aloe 'Hercules' are Aloe barberae (aka bainsii)- left, and Aloe dichotoma (right) Aloe 'Goliath' (left) is a related and also excellent landscape plant- it is a hybrid of Aloe barberae, too, and a non-branching Madagascan species, Aloe vaombe (right) Two hybrids growing in the Huntington Botanical Gardens: Aloe 'Pink Perfection' (left) and Aloe 'Tingtinkie' (right)