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Soyoulikedonutseh t1_jcwsf21 wrote

This in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no larva, and that titan beetles just spring out of holes in the ground!

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Tairo t1_jcwih55 wrote

Yeah, I found one. Actually I found a bunch but I'm not gonna share them. I'm going to eat them all.

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Gecko99 OP t1_jcx7bwu wrote

There could be some group of native people who have been occasionally finding two-inch-wide grubs for thousands of years and think they got really lucky and they just cook it on a stick over a fire. Maybe no one has thought to ask the right person what the biggest grub they've found was.

Two species of extant coelacanth have been discovered at fish markets, one in 1938, the other in 1997.

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcxzfj8 wrote

You know those horseshoe crabs that scientists find really precious and would pay a lot to milk them?

Yeah, I walked past a village several years ago where there were a ton of them there were being sold to be cooked/eaten…. But nobody actually buys them to eat, too difficult to eat I hear, so they’re just left to die and rot. A by-product of fishing.

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Skips3000 t1_jcy163q wrote

Horseshoe crabs aren’t usually killed in the process I thought? They drain what they can and release

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Amarthran t1_jcy59d5 wrote

And then it dies shortly after. Very few actually survive after being released

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcy1ac1 wrote

Yeah. It’s more like my point is that the villagers just kill them off cause there’s no profit for them…

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jcz6pgb wrote

EDIT: apparently they are folded, not cut up in this picture. Maybe I should read articles that I post.

Wellllllll……..

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vhapcg/blue_gold_horseshoe_crabs_blood_is_worth_60000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Based on that picture of how cut up they are……

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Keksmonster t1_jczb6us wrote

Apparently they aren't cut up, their back half is bent to their belly.

All available to read in the threat you posted but who checks anything on here anyways...

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jczf0nv wrote

Welp, guilty. That image sure is crazy then. I sure hope that isn’t extremely painful and damaging I guess?

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Keksmonster t1_jczr5xw wrote

I have no clue but if you look at the top picture the tail is a seperate segment of the body so I assume it's not an unnatural positition that damages the crab

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[deleted] t1_jcyc6zl wrote

That’s depressing as fuck.

I haven’t seen a wild horseshoe crab since I was a kid

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flaminate_strutching t1_jcwv6j4 wrote

“Boreholes thought to be created by titan beetle larvae seem to fit a grub over two inches wide and perhaps as much as one foot long.”

Holy crap!

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Gecko99 OP t1_jcx7izz wrote

I was going to put that in the title but the automoderator wouldn't let me include speculation.

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npeggsy t1_jcyfapw wrote

We've been to the moon. We've been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (well, James Cameron has). We've pretty much mapped almost the entire landmass of the earth with Google Maps. And yet we've never seen a grub that's a foot long, and there's a bunch of them out there. I love the earth.

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OnlyKilgannon t1_jczu21c wrote

I have been to the Great Wall of China. I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt. I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years as a sportscaster have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here.

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drfsrich t1_jd73ghs wrote

... But was the camel REALLY satisfied?

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starmartyr t1_jcze6iw wrote

What is crazy to me is the Earth's mantle. It's only a few miles away, it makes up over 80% of the Earth's volume and nobody has ever seen it.

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mintmouse t1_jd11cc4 wrote

It’s practically begging to be laid in a foot-long hotdog bun.

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ali3n33 t1_jcwdm55 wrote

As in never found in the wild? Can they be bred in captivity ? I googled and thought I found larvae pictures but the results are conflicting.

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NolanSyKinsley t1_jcx0iet wrote

I swear I have seen a timelapse of what was purported to be a titan beetle going through the stages.

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A40 t1_jcw6ofq wrote

That's because they spontaneously generate as adults from leaf mould. Like voles do.

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beglele9w1 t1_jcwa9ok wrote

ooks like we have another case of "alternative beetle facts.

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A40 t1_jcwitoz wrote

Please, they prefer the term 'creative facts' ;-)

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Art0fRuinN23 t1_jcwuww3 wrote

"Fun Facts" is what I call 'em. Facts are so boringly true. Sometimes it's fun to spice 'em up with some lies.

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achtung94 t1_jcx68ns wrote

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MostlyDeku t1_jczlnmq wrote

Sounds an awful lot like you spawn titan beetles in through creative mode

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tempus_periit t1_jcw73jj wrote

Oh, no. I can only imagine where they will eventually find them.

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RIPfreewill t1_jcwvp4u wrote

It will be in the last place we look.

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Kizmo2 t1_jcz1imq wrote

Unless we keep looking after we've found it.

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AUkion1000 t1_jcxfgqb wrote

Why not force a male snd female to produce eggs and go from there

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thesneakywalrus t1_jcz52c5 wrote

It's very possible we've not had success breeding them in captivity.

There's a number of species that we've either struggled to, or outright haven't been able to breed.

Squids, for example, were previously thought to be impossible to breed in captivity because they are very difficult to keep alive and healthy in standard aquariums. Once we figured out that we needed HUGE tanks with opaque walls in order to keep them alive, we began to see success in breeding.

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Conocoryphe t1_jd2lxo2 wrote

They belong to the family Prioninae, which are notoriously difficult to breed, as these insects require very specific conditions that are often hard to replicate in a terrarium.

It would probably have been done by now by hobbyist beetle keepers, if you could just buy them from an online store without any trouble. But they are illegal to buy or own in many countries. You could theoretically travel to the South American forests to find male and female beetles, but the female titan beetles are also really elusive and may take a lot of time and effort to find. Especially since we're rapidly destroying their habitat.

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yesemel t1_jcy9g3f wrote

Someone decipher and fix this sentence on the wiki: “The size of the size sensory integration were larger complex eyes that have structured large optic and antennal lobes”

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DoppledBramble3725 t1_jcxdhyc wrote

Note to self, do not go to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas, and north-central Brazil

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Conocoryphe t1_jd2mlix wrote

Being a biologist myself, Titanus giganteus is definitely on my bucket list of species that I'd love to see at least once in my life! (They also get bonus points for having one of the coolest Latin names out there, on par with Dynastes satanas, Attacus atlas and Varroa destructor).

These beetles belong to the family Prioninae, which are notoriously difficult to breed, as these insects require very specific conditions that are often hard to replicate in a terrarium. That's why they haven't been bred in captivity.

It would probably have been done by now by hobbyist beetle keepers, if you could just buy them from an online store without any trouble. But they are illegal to buy or own in many countries.

You could theoretically travel to the South American forests to find male and female beetles, but the female titan beetles are really elusive and may take a lot of time and effort to find, and not many people are willing to commit to such an expedition, because knowing what the larvae of these insects look like isn't exactly a scientific priority.

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NocentBystander t1_jczzb1h wrote

No one has found a larva of the titan beetle and survived you mean.

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newmilwaukee t1_jcza5qj wrote

Don't we have these in captivity and can't we just watch and see ?

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Pingaring t1_jcyww6p wrote

Conservatives: "Look what Jesus did!"

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