Just when we thought we’d seen it all, the internet dishes up a fat, red alien baby that looks like it’s been ripped from the scorching sand dunes of Venus (we wish).
In reality, it’s just a Hercules beetle in its pupa form, enshrined in a chrysalis as it prepares to take on its adult form. But let’s not talk it down too much – this writhing cocoon is about to become one of the largest insects on Earth.
More about that beastie here.
I heard this on The Tim Conway Jr. Show KFIAM 640. The video is even better.
Heh. “Jucet Smolliet.” Dave Chappelle is one funny guy.
In 1977, _____ & The Pips appeared on The Richard Pryor Show sans Gladys Knight. IIRC, she had laryngitis that night.
Have a great Presidents’ Day weekend, folks, and we’ll do some stuff tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 
that baby beetle is terrifying and I love the husbands of target
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Beth– I read something about how pupae morph while in the chrysalis. They melt into a living goop that reassembles itself.
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I raise Monarch butterflies & Eastern Hercules beetles. I would like to try some of those.
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Bob– Do you market them or eat them?
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