Today, we will talk about the Elephant Beetle, a genus of beetlesfrom the rhinoceros beetle subfamily.

Elephant beetles are generally large beetles Their scientificname, megasoma, even means “large body” in Greek. As a genus, the elephantbeetles contain some of the largest known beetle species. Even so, there aresome small species. They are usually dark in color, however, most of them havemicroscopic hairs covering nearly their entire body. Because of these hairs,they appear to be pale orange or yellow. The males have large horns, while thefemales do not. The purpose of these horns is to wrestle with other males forfood and for a mate.

Elephant beetles are found in most of South America, and thesouthern parts of North America. They primarily live in rainforests.

Elephant beetles are herbivores, meaning they have plant baseddiets. The larvae, or the young, feed on tree and shrub roots. The adultsusually drink tree sap and suck juice from fruit. One species was recorded tohave eaten exotic fruits like pineapples, longan, lychee, and bark from certaintrees.

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