The Eastern Hercules Beetle is North America's largest beetle, with males bearing enormous thoracic horns used for combat over females. Males can reach 2.5 inches and are pasty greenish-gray with black mottling, changing color with humidity. The massive white larva can take two years to develop inside rotting hardwood logs.
Habitat
Mature deciduous forests with rotting hardwood logs
Diet
Larvae: rotting wood. Adults: tree sap and rotting fruit
How common
Uncommon
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