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@Grumblesock youtube.com/watch?v=AFbu21AGSho hercules beetle looks like its mostly mandible in its adult stage , very cool looking, its crazy how it grows that mandible, very bizarre
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@Grumblesock milkweeds are a great plant to put in your garden if you want monarch butterflies, its a more suitable plant for them to lay their eggs in compared to other plants
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@Grumblesock the red milkweed beetles are much more common thankfully
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That's good hear, invasive beetles are a pain the backside and impossible to get rid of safely in numbers that'll have any real impact 😒
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@Grumblesock I have a good amount of experience digging up beetle larvae to look at them, mostly red milkweed beetles and invasive japanese beetles, they both can be found near milkweeds and i kill the jap beetles to protect the milkweeds. Monarch butterflies like to pollinate milkweeds so i'm also helping the monarchs too when i do this, red milkweed beetles aren't bad for milkweeds unless they're in large numbers in which case you just knock them off the plant.
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Sounds like you've got some pretty interesting beetle there, ours are fairly dull by comparison. Shame to hear about the invasive ones, are they a particularly big problem? I've just looked up the red milkweed beetle and they look really cool, how often do you find in those larger, more damaging clusters?.
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That's incredible, I'd never really given thought to the larval stages of the giant beetles but I've got to say I'm impressed. Thank you for showing this to me 🍻
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