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Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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One tough beetle

By Pauline Tom

The newspaper inadvertently labeled last week’s photo of a wheel bug, “rhinoceros beetle” and mentioned, “leave it be”.

Contrary to last week’s featured “wheel bug”, the fierce-looking rhinoceros beetle is harmaless to humans. In fact, in Japan they are sold and kept as pets.

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