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You don\u2019t see many very large beetles in Singapore, but when you see one, it is probably this rhino beetle, which is around 35mm in size. And there is a good chance that is lost in the entrance of a building, maybe even on its back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Usually I find rhino beetles in situations where a rescue is required <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Poor nocturnal things, they are attracted by the lights and can’t find their way. That\u2019s my version, a nice, clumsy beetle. I won\u2019t move away from this opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, unfortunately the more I read about insects in depth, the more often I find insects being called pests. That is something really ugly, and I don\u2019t use that term anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our clumsy beetle turns out to be a palm eater. It is also one of the oil-palm eaters. They are way to large for the yellow assassin bug (coming soon!). They also like coconut trees (do you know the song<\/a>? Hehe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And whenever it comes to commercial or agricultural issues, there is a lot of studies about the control of the regarding animals. Let\u2019s start with this formal agreement from 1964<\/a> to research on ways how to fight Oryctes rhinoceros in large scale. People in the Pacific ocean depend a lot on palm trees and thus suffered from the fast growing population of those beetles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they found in their studies is a virus (Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus (OrNV)) that kills the beetle. A description of how it works can be found here<\/a>. Not so easy to find out how they came across that virus and how it was spread though. I guess that is a bit of a hairy scary detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This virus was spread around by some purposely-infected and released rhino beetles, and it helped to reduce their population well. But nature adopts, so in the same way as other crop eaters can develop a resistance against pesticides, there occurred a variation of the rhino beetle that can live with the OrNV. They call it Coconut Rhino Beetle G, CRB G. So after decades now people need a new version of the virus or a new approach to control Oryctes rhinoceros. Just a side note, this virus might also kill other rhino beetles, like here in Korea<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This study<\/a> reports that the resistant beetle variation is not only in the Pacific Islands, but already in Indonesia, and Philipines, but not in Malaysia. I wonder what our beetle is, resistant or not infected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further studies I recommend to read this Master\u00a0thesis from Hawaii. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I happened to find this blog<\/a> with an article about how beetles literally come back on their feet what gave me the idea for this post’s title. The blog is a bit similar to mine, but the author writes about studies from all kinds of research. Way to go Martin, great blog, and great idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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