The hard life of the rhinoceros beetle :(
#fromtheotherside Who does not remember him, walking alone with great difficulty or overturned on the side of the road, under the cordon boiling by the summer sun, during the heat waves of South America. Males have a cephalic horn with which they braid in epic fights against their peers for the love of females.
They are the strong genus of the species: they lift up to eighty times their weight, but they cannot fly, as females do.
Both do not live on the surface for long, almost reaching two months of life between the earth and the grass. Some do not even get there and their life is extinguished creaking under the sole of a shoe.
The life of the rhinoceros beetle, or bull bug, is hard, which in the larva stage becomes the fearsome "white worm" or "blind chicken".
This underground caterpillar that governs the depths of the soils and damages crops is considered a pest in the field.
For this reason, the bull bug faces an unequal battle against the agricultural industry that fights it to the death with chemical weapons of mass destruction. Fungicides and Insecticides.
Its cycle is like this: the adults appear on the surface of the soil in December and from January to March the ovipositions of the females occur, which lay about 30 eggs under the ground at about ten centimeters deep.
In two weeks the larvae are formed, that is to say the fearsome white worm or the harmful stage for the crops, which proliferate between the months of March to November.
Larval damage is shown in wilting of seeded plants or lawns in gardens with “patches” of bare soil.
This is when it becomes noticeable that "something" is happening under the ground.
A huge community of rhinoceros is about to develop!
Starting in October, the worms enter the pupal stage, or semi-developed bug, and no longer harm crops............
In this sense, the rhinoceros beetle or bull bug can be considered victorious.
The farmer, when this happens, must resign himself until the next sowing, because the remedy (the poison applied) would be worse than the "disease".
Human beings have laid down their chemical weapons of massive contamination, showing themselves useless in the face of the surviving power of the rhinoceros beetle.
When I learned the story of the yellowish-white six-legged white worm that feeds on the roots of the lawn, I realized that it was the larva of the glorious rhinoceros beetle!
But I'm not sure that the larvae eating my lawn is the white rhinoceros beetle worm.
Investigating a little, I saw that there are many subterranean worms that eat the roots of the grass: the cricket larva is one of them, I think I have read there, among other protagonists in the government of the depths of the earth.
In my case, as the farmer who has inevitably accepted the multiplication of the kelp, I refuse to use chemical weapons. For now.
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Unfortunately, they do damage, including crops.
The life of this insect raises what is nature with some living beings