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22-May-05, 04:24 PM
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Anyone seen a beetle this big before?
It's a Goliath beetle from West Africa. 
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22-May-05, 04:29 PM
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Wow what awesome Beetle, wonder how big the lavae are? 
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22-May-05, 04:32 PM
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22-May-05, 04:49 PM
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22-May-05, 05:12 PM
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22-May-05, 05:25 PM
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Thank gawd we dont get them here, or I'd have to work on the moves in my girly gedidoffameee dance I do when things like christmas beetles get in my house.
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22-May-05, 05:28 PM
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Thanks for sharing Neil . Does anyone know the biggest bug in Australia? |
22-May-05, 05:32 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: AUSTRALIA | | | How did you get a hold of that one Neil out of curiosity?? Are you allowed to keep them or was that photo taken overseas? |
22-May-05, 06:10 PM
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Geez, there's some awesome critters in the world isn't there?
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22-May-05, 06:20 PM
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22-May-05, 06:56 PM
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22-May-05, 07:15 PM
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22-May-05, 07:32 PM
|  | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | | A friend of mine (the one from the notorious turtle thread) has a few of those, along with a few similar species. Unfortunately we're only allowed to import them dead, so we can't keep live colonies of them. Surprisingly (so I'm told), Australia now allows the export of live insects, but the sun will probably fail to rise before we're allowed to freely import them.
And yeah, what Dicco said 
The longest insect is usually said to be Acrophylla titan (A phasmid) although similar to snakes, there are many unreliable reports of much larger phasmids.
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22-May-05, 07:34 PM
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(although some claim it is also the longest in the world, which I don't believe)
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22-May-05, 07:41 PM
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