#australian rhinoceros beetle

[ljsbugblog]

this is a very old video, the only time I've had the chance to handle a rhinoceros beetle. A camera can't truly capture how vividly red he was :]

Australian Rhinoceros Beetle, male (Xylotrupes australicus).

[onenicebugperday]

@seaotteralec​ submitted: lovely guy i found in SE-QLD, Australia! i didnt think we had any around here and he unfortunately wasn’t with us anymore so i hope no one lost a pet. very cool to see though!

You have a bunch of species of rhinoceros beetles in Queensland! This one, the Australian rhinoceros beetle, is both native and decently common. It has big ol’ horns so of course it’s a male! RIP, friend.

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

99 Science Facts

1. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

3. In October 1999 the 6 billionth person was born.

4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

9. Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

10. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.

11. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

12. All the hydrogen atoms in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big Bang.

13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

17. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

18. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

19. The Australian billy goat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

20. Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

21. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

22. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

23. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

24. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

25. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

26. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

27. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

28. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

29. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

30. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

31. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

32. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

33. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

34. Chimps can understand 300 different signs.

35. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

36. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

37. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

38. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

39. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

40. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

41. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

42. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

43. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

44. A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

45. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

46. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

47. The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.

48. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

49. Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

50. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

51. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

52. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

53. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

54. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

55. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

56.  If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size  of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

57. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

58. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

59. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

60. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

61. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

62. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

63. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

64. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

65. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

66. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

67. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

68. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

69. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees Celsius.

70. Space debris travels through space at over 18,000 mph.

71. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

72. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

73. Tuberculosis is the biggest global killer of women.

74. Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day.

75. Some species of bamboo grow at a rate of 3ft per day.

76. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.

77. The highest recorded train speed is 320.2 mph by the TGV train in France.

78. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.

79. The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.

80. 65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs.

81. The temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5500 degrees Celsius.

82. Argentia in Newfoundland has an average 206 days of fog each year.

83. Mount Waiale’ale in Hawaii is the rainiest place in the world and has 335 rainy days a year.

84. 68% of all UFO sightings are by men.

85. 15% of the world’s fresh water flows down the Amazon.

86. A cat has 32 sets of muscles in each ear.

87. Over two-thirds of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools.

88. More people die of heart attacks on Monday than on any other day of the week.

89.  Beetles are the strongest animals on Earth relative to their size. A   rhinoceros beetle can carry 850 times its own weight in its back.

90. In 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space.

91. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

92. In 1885 Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.

93. Scotsman John Baird invented the Baird televisor (now the television) in 1925.

94. Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System.

95. The Walkman was launched in Japan by Sony in 1979.

96. Traffic lights with red and green gas lights were first  introduced in London in 1868. Unfortunately, they exploded and killed a  policeman. The first successful system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio  in 1914.

97. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.

98. 3 billion of the world’s 6 billion population are under the age of 25.

99. Infant mortality in 1900 was 142 in 1000 births. By 2000 it had reduced to just 6 in every 1000.

[myth-lord]

Could you make a post abou the vermin class of creatures?

Your wish is my command :-p

How much creepy crawlers do you need? I have a lot of them in my project, and a lot of vermin-based creatures which aren’t vermin in Mythika, but which do have insectoid/mollusk based features.

I count most creepy creatures as vermin in these lists, like true insects, arachnids, crabs and centipedes.

In the list below this I also added Worms, Jellyfish, Starfish, Leeches and other such non-vermin, but creepy crawler based creatures which could function as vermin. (they do in D&D)

Now for the lists, I’m gonna post a huge list of new-creatures-to-my-project soon with small descriptions of what role/story they have, many of these insect-monsters are in it. For now I only name the vermin they were based on.

Aristotiles (M-European) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Eurypterid Brucha (Irish) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Locust Cagn (African) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Mantis Choukeshin (Japanese) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Swarm of Butterflies Con Rit (Vietnamese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Ragworm Con Rit, Skolopendra (Greek) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Ragworm Deathcrawler (Brazilian) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Centipede Djieien (N-American) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Solifugid Eintykara (Paraguay) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Swarm of BeesGux (N-American) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Toe-Biter Inulpamahuida (Mapuche) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Walking Stick InsectItzpapalotl (Aztec) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Butterfly Jba Fofi (African) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Wolf Spider Jba Fofi, Aasivarluut (Inuit) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Tarantula Jinshin Mushi (Japanese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Rhinoceros Beetle Karkinos (Greek) – Vermin (Medium)(Neutral) – Crab Karkinos, Saratan (Arabian) – Vermin (Colossal)(Hostile) – Hermit Crab Kugdlughiak (Inuit) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Centipede Minceskro (Romanian) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Swarm of Carrion Beetles Musca Macedda (Sardinian) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Swarm of FliesMyrmecoleon (M-European) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Antlion Polypus (M-European) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Lobster Scarab (Egyptian) – Vermin (Small)(Neutral) – Scarab Beetle Scarab, Khepri (Egyptian) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Bombardier Beetle Scorpios (Greek) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Scorpion Tcaridyi (Romanian) – Vermin / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Tcaridyi, Kranokolaptes (Greek) – Vermin / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Moth Tsutsugamushi (Japanese) – Vermin / Parasite / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Tick Tsutsugamushi, Nitus (Spanish) – Vermin / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Tick Ulagu (N-American) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Wasp Xan (Mayan) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Mosquito Xan, Moskitto (Fearsome Critter) – Vermin / Vampire (Medium)(Hostile) – Mosquito Xan, Alkuntane (N-American) – Vermin / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Mosquito / Parasite WaspZarronco (Spanish) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Dragonfly

The following creatures are not vermin-types in my project, but they do have many vermin-features, most of them are Oni which took over the bodies of vermin, or fae/demonic variants of vermin which are called Fey and Fiends.

Adze (African) – Fey / Vampire / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Firefly Amikiri (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Mantis FeaturesApocalypse Locust (M-European) – Fiend (Medium)(Hostile) – Locust Arachne (Greek) – Beastman / Centauric (Large)(Hostile/Boss) – Spider HumanoidAsanbosam, Abuhuku (Colombia) –  Troll / Vampire (Large)(Hostile) – Mosquito TrollAtuikakura (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Sea Cucumber Awd Goggie (English) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Awd Goggie, Okiku Mushi (Japanese) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Bisan (Malay) – Nymph / Shifter (Medium)(Neutral) – Nymph (fantasy, not young insect) of Insects, mostly Cicada Bisan, Thriae (Greek) – Nymph / Shifter (Medium)(Neutral) – Nymph (fantasy, not young insect) of Insects, mostly BeesBitoso (Romanian) – Aberration / Parasite (Medium)(Hostile) – Parasite Worm Burach Bhadi (Scottish) – Aberration / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Leech Burach Bhadi, Alukah (Israel) – Aberration / Parasite / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Leech Cagn, Mandarangkal (Philippine) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Mantis HumanoidDeathcrawler, Omukade (Japanese) – Oni (Colossal)(Hostile) – Centipede Druj Nasu (Persian) – Fiend (Medium)(Hostile) – Fly DemonEk Chapat (Mayan) – Alien (Huge)(Neutral) – Centipede Erymanthian, Bonguru (Solomon Island) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Boar which body functions as living hive for HornetsFormica Aurum (M-European) – Construct (Small)(Neutral) – Ant Girtablilu (Mesopotamian) – Beastman / Centauric (Large)(Hostile) – Scorpion HumanoidHeikegani (Japanese) – Fiend (Small)(Hostile) – Heikegani Crab Jba Fofi, Jorogumo (Japanese) – Fey / Shifter (Large)(Hostile) – Black Widow Jba Fofi, Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Trapdoor SpiderKarkinos, Traicousse (Belgian) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – River CrabKurage Hinotama (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Jellyfish Kurage Hinotama, Muirdris (Irish) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Jellyfish Lakuma (Chilean) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant Isopod Lakuma, Charybdis (Greek) – Aberration (Colossal)(Hostile) – Giant IsopodMambabarang (Philippine) – Hag / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Hag which controls and summons all types of verminMerrow, Sazae-Oni (Japanese) – Oni / Centauric (Medium)(Hostile) – Sea Snail HumanoidMothman (North American) – Alien (Medium)(Hostile) – Moth HumanoidMulilo (African) – Aberration (Medium)(Neutral) – Slug Mulilo, Lou Carcolh (French) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – SnailMyrmidon (Greek) – Human (Medium)(Hostile) – Humans which were created from AntsMyrmidon, Korybante (Greek) – Human (Medium)(Hostile) – Humans which were created from Queen AntsNocnitsa, Shtriga (Albanian) – Fey / Mara (Large)(Hostile) – Moth Ohdowas, Nuno (Philippine) – Dwarf / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Dwarves which control AntsOlgoi-Khorkhoi (Mongolian) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Worm Pyrausta (Cyprus) – Drake (Small)(Neutral) – Moth Dragon Qinyuan (Chinese) – Chimerae (Small)(Hostile) – Bee / Hummingbird Rhinelapus (Fearsome Critter) – Alien (Huge)(Hostile) – Pond SkaterScorpios, Pioial (Australian) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Scorpion Scorpios, Sandwalker (Arabian) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Scorpion Shen (Chinese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Bivalve Shen, Pua Tu Tahi (Solomon Islands) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant ClamSkolex (M-European) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Sea Worm Skolex, Lagarfljot (Icelandic) – Aberration (Colossal)(Hostile) – Worm Stella (French) – Aberration (Small)(Neutral) – Starfish Stella, Mooldabbie (Australian) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Crown of Thorns Stella, Decarabia (Demonology) – Fiend (Large)(Hostile) - StarfishTculo (Romanian) – Aberration / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Urchin Tlanusi (N-American) – Aberration / Vampire (Large)(Hostile) – Leech Ulagu, Awahondo (N-American) – Spirit (Large)(Hostile) – Parasite WaspWether (M-European) – Beast / Parasite (Medium)(Hostile) – Ram which has maggots in its brainWhowie (Australian) – Chimerae (Huge)(Hostile) – Half Lizard half Insect

Bosses/Friendly Encounters who have vermin-based features.

Beelzebub (Demonology) – Demon / Shifter (Large)(Boss) – Fly Serket (Egyptian) – Beastman / Centauric (Huge)(Boss) – Scorpion HumanoidAnansi (African) – Fey / Shifter (Medium)(Friendly) – Spider Shussebora (Japanese) – Drake / Shifter (Small)(Friendly) – Sea Snail DragonShamir (Israel) – Aberration / Swarm (Small) – Wood Worm

Others who have insect/arachnid/mollusk like features, but which aren’t in my list.

Abatwa (African) – Humanoid / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Small humans which ride on AntsAtui Koro Ekashi (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Sea SlugHaakapainizi (N-American) – Fiend (Huge)(Hostile) – Locust Horerczy (German) – Demon (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant Demon which spits out swarms of Moths/ButterfliesNozuchi (Japanese) – Aberration (Small)(Hostile) – Hairy WormPelesit (Malay) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Locust Sarmatian Sea Snail (M-European) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Snail Schilalyi (Romanian) – Chimerae (Small)(Hostile) – Centipede / MouseUshi Oni (Japanese) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Spider Crab Ah Muzen Cab (Mayan) – Beastman (Medium)(Neutral) – God of BeesApshait (Egyptian) – Undead (Small)(Hostile) – Carrion Beetle Areop-Enap (Nauruan) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Spider Bedudu (Maltese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Centipede Caballeros Del Diablu (Spanish) – Vermin (Large) – Dragonfly Furia Infernalis (Swedish) – Aberration / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Parasite Worm Gadfly (Greek) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Gadfly Gigelorum (Scottish) – Vermin (Small) – Mite Guchong (Chinese) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Assassin Bug Kokopelli (N-American) – Fae / Shifter (Small) – All types of Insects featuresMuhnochwa (India) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Carnivorous crickets/locusts with spikes?Muryan (Welsh) – Fairy / Shifter (Small)(Hostile) – Faeries based on insectsTi-Sikh-Puk (Inuit) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Weewillmekq (N-American) – Drake / Sea Serpent / Vampire (Huge)(Hostile) – Leech Ya (N-American) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Flea

[gus-messner-japan]

How To Not Run a Travel Blog. Step 1: Don't update for 2 months

See I tried to update it... It just proceeded to have an error and literally send like part of the first paragraph of a 5 paragraph update. Yeah that annoyed me. Alright so I guess I'll start where I left off and work my way from there.

Now last time I updated I was talking about how I was hanging out with a couple of students taking a trip to Japan from New Zealand. I have to say they were a blast to hang out with. Really funny and nice people. The school took us to a bunch of places including Disneyland, I'll go ahead and put the pictures of all of us below.

(I regret nothing in the first picture)

But yeah all of them were really nice and I would love to see them all again sometime. (Now how does one sneak into New Zealand.)

Now I guess I'll explain part of the reason why I took so long to update. I was starting to get smacked in the face a little with everything going on. I just was losing the will to do just about everything, I just cane home studied, dinked around on my computer and phone, then went to sleep. I guess I finally realised that I'm not a tourist and I need to put in my 2 cents if I want to get anything to happen. There was a trip I took that helped me realise that. I took a trip alone to this wonderful park, and I must say it felt wonderful. It reminded me of all of the places I have been before, and how they brought me to the place I am now. I watched 3 boys curiously looking at these huge rhinoceros beetles and laughing with their dad. Just watching those scenes helped me realise what I need to do. It was around this time that I tried to update the blog, and it didn't work. (Totally still not annoyed with that)

Now the next major thing was something that keeps crawling it's way back into my life and I honestly have 0 problems with it. I got together with a couple of people I met through AFS(My study abroad company) And we had a Dungeons and Dragons one shot campaign. I was the Dungeon Master, And we had a Swedish girl playing a Gender Neutral Gnome Warlock, a Australian girl playing a Half elf rouge, a Thai guy playing a Black Dragonborn Paladin, and a Bolivian guy playing a Human Wizard. It was amazing how a game that has taken such an impact in the current friends I have and have made brought together such a odd ball group of people. It's just spectacular. (Also the Bolivian guy is absolutely hooked and keeps asking me questions about the game and when the next session will be.)

Also I've been making some friends as school, I even went and hung out with one on a day off. I hope that I get more chances to do it, because it was a pretty fun time with this one. (Her name is Shoko Tsushima and she's a amazing artist, I mean, most of my friends are, I'll try and bring back the mini books they made and show everyone, it's impressive)

It may seem a little weird (and yes I still don't understand how to smile) but these are called Purikuras and are a very popular thing to do while being with friends in Japan.

Now last week was both the last week of school for about a month and I also spent it with a Different host family. They were another older couple and I guess more so a traditional Japanese family. It was an interesting experience compared to the very modern liberal lifestyle of the Suzukis. (I should also mention Tokyo was reaching around 100 degrees every day along with A LOT of Humidity and it is not a good time.)

So currently I'm in Nagano Prefecture and just been chilling for Summer Break. I went on a hike on a mountain Monday. There's also a big AFS summer camp thing coming up soon, so I'll be making an effort to try and update around that time. Let's do it.

[solomonherald]

Opposition Leader Acknowledges SI’s Traditional Partners, Australia, Japan and New Zealand

Leader of Opposition and MP for Aoke Langa Langa Constituency Hon. Mathew Wale has acknowledged the commitments made by three of our long time traditional donor partners to provide additional financial assistance in key areas of need and says, the gestures could not have come at a better time and considering, they too have their own problems at home. The statement follows the announcement that Australia, Japan and New Zealand have all made commitments to provide additional financial support to Solomon Islands which will see Australia providing a $85M funding assistance to procure and distribute COVOD -19 Vaccine, Japan injecting $14.5M to assist in the fight against corruption and New Zealand’s $10m finance package to help in the ongoing fight against the Rhinoceros beetle. The Opposition states that this assistance from the Australian Government and people is really timely, adding that the health and safety of our people is a key prerequisite if we are to quickly return to normalcy any time soon.   “Easy and quick access to the much needed Covid-19 medication will be key in this process. The assistance by Australia therefore relieves our government of a huge cost and will help give confidence to people and business going about their normal activities.  This is very important and so I thank the Government and people of Australia for their generosity. “On the same note, I also thank the Governments and people of Japan and New Zealand.  Read the full article

[pantheescapeartist]

Original OC and design artwork. You can find it on my Deviantart page, Pipinghotsoulpie, as well. Colored with Prisma pencils and Basic Bitch markers, digitally edited.

Tattoo Designs

From the Top:

Sugar Skull Gypsy, Los Muertos Girl, Leto the II from Dune, Nature Sleeve Concept, Owl Portrat Unfinished, Insect Study, Cicada and Manzanita Tree with Sunflower Background Sleeve Pt. 1, Rhinoceros Beetle and June Bug on Manzanita Tree with Sunflower Background Sleeve Pt. 2, Australian Emperor Gum Tree Moth and Luna Moth on Manzanita Tree Branch with Sunflower Background Sleeve Pt. 3,

[onenicebugperday]

@rub-the-rest-with-yellow submitted: G'day again, i had a question, there was a sudden blast of heat the other week, like 37°c in the shade, and a batch of big dead bugs turned up on the verandah at the local gp office. I was wondering, are these beetles (?) normally herd animals or did they all just come to the coolest place nearby to escape the sudden heat (since the place is air conditioned) but it wasnt cool enough? This is in south-east Queensland (straya) by the way

Thanks and have a nice day!

They look like female rhinoceros beetles which do not naturally travel in groups, so escaping the heat may be a reasonable explanation. And possibly died of dehydration once they got inside. Unless there's some obvious behavior I'm unaware of because I'm not australian. Either way RIP little friends! Hope they lived nice beetle lives before they perished...