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Rhinoceros Beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis
Copyright © 2009 Jerry Armstrong

Rhinoceros Beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis
Moccasin Lake, Winston, Douglas County, Georgia, USA
August 10, 2009
Size: 28.5mm measured length

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Contributed by Jerry Armstrong on 10 August, 2009 - 8:00pm
Last updated 10 August, 2009 - 9:11pm

FABULOUS photos
...stumbled across this photo just now. I'm not a beetle person, but this is a fabulous photo -- very informational (and 'dinosaurial' :D )
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 17 July, 2010 - 5:01am

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