One evening after dark we heard a loud thump against one of the window screens. We rushed out to the deck to find this extremely large beetle scrambling along the eaves. After talking with some of the neighbors we can identify it as a coconut beetle. As one might guess, they tend to hang out in the tops of the coconut trees, but this one apparently decided to dive bomb our house. It’s hard to tell from the picture but it was a good 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long; easily the largest beetle I’ve seen outside of a museum. As I was photographing it I wanted Deborah to put her hand by it for scale, but for some reason she refused.
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