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an art work depicting two horned animals with blue eyes

Media: Acrylic & Iridescent Lacquer on Canvas. Size: 36" x 24" (91 x 61 cm). About: Painting is based on Classic Greek style and the Hercules Beetle (lat. Dynastes hercules). The Hercules Beetle is the strongest creature in the world. It can lift 850 times their own weight. It would be equivalent to a human lifting 10 elephants!

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a bug with two red wings on it's back and one black body, sitting in front of a white background

In this science activity, kids will explore and create a beetle habitat where they can observe beetles! Beetles are different from other insects because they have a pair of tough fore-wings called “elytra” and a second set of more delicate flight wings. The fore-wings protect the beetle’s body and the flight wings. Beetles can crawl around rocks, sticks, and leaves and not get hurt because their elytra are tough. When they are ready to fly, they open their elytra and unfold their flight…

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an insect and some other insects on a white background

In this infographic the different stages of the life cycle of the Dynastes hercules beetle are represented, and also some interesting details of this species such as sexual dimorphism, habitat and variation of the color of the elytra depending on the humidity of the habitat...

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