There are many beetles with horns and all are referred to as Rhino Beetles. The last picture is of the actual Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes ...

Family Scarabaeidae Large bodied, about 37mm.   Males have a fork-like 3-pronged extension to proton and a backward-curved horn on its...

Family Scarabaeidae The flightless dung beetle ( Circellium bacchus ) is a species of dung beetle endemic to a few areas of South Afric...

 Family Scarabaeidae  These are small beetles, about 9mm and are found in the coastal areas as well as central and northern regions. ...

Gold-haired Fruit Chafer (Xeloma tomentosa)  These are smallish beetles and identified by the dense golden hairs and brown and yellow ma...

Going outside, this Fruit Chafer landed at my feet. Its colors are amazing. It is about and inch in body length and when it opens its wing...

Ted my good friend from Beetles In The Bush was spot on with this one. Congrats!! :) This is quite a large fellow, about 1 inch in lengt...

This Chafer was buried in these tiny flowers and did not even blink when I brought the camera near. They feed on the flowers of different ...

This specimen was only about half an inch in length but they do grow a bit bigger than that. I was outside having my coffee when he flew ont...

For all you intrepid travelers out there, Jose has posted the most wonderful pictures of his trip to Igauzu Falls in Argentina. Two pe...

The Plum Dung Beetle (Anachalcos convexus) are large and nocturnal feeding off carrion as well as dung. Males and females jointly roll bal...

Also called Gold-haired Fruit Chafer  This is a small beetle being only about a half inch in body length. The adults feed on flowers.