Female Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas)
This one measured at a whopping 9cm long and she flies! This beetle spends most of its life cycle as a larva, taking up to 3 years to develop into an adult which then usually only lives up to 3 months — at Maya Centre.
Photograph by ÐåVid HílMý
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