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 Rainbow Leaf Beetle, also popular as the Snowdon Beetle, is a dazzlingly colorful species of Eurasian leaf beetle. They inhabit areas of montane grasslands from Norway to northern Italy, from Ussuri in the east, and Wales in the west. They thrive on base-rich screes. They also lay their eggs on wild grasses such as Browntop and sheep fescue.