Dog with Flying Goliath Beetle

This video is years old, but is of a Goliath Beetle (Pam) impatiently trying to get from one side of the room to the other. She clawed at the air, as she usually did and then took off. Sorry about the sound, I don't know why it deteriorated over time like that. She was never hurt by the dog/cat, they were just curious, like the rest of us. She's long since dead and no, I can't help anyone get one.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Beetle
• Goilath Beetle
• Goliathus
• Flying beetle
• odd couples
• Coleoptera
• Insects
• Insect

[randomness72838]

Beetles are stupid. They fly just to crash land on their backs then they starve to death because they can't get up.

[skogstad]

@randomness72838 Yes, they fly for the purposes of falling on their backs on a carpeted floor and to die. Beetles are stupid.

[finalfictionwriter]

I'd love to acquire about five of these amazing insects for breeding purposes, I'm already looking up the care and husbandry and came across this video. Absolutely beautiful animals, and they should be produced more often for the exotics hobby than be taken from the wild. : c

[skogstad]

@finalfictionwriter It's only recently that breeders in Asia cracked how to breed them, as they have really specific requirements to initiate pupation. They're illegal in the US though. I agree though, as far as exotic pets, they're the bees' knees.

[BlinkinFirefly]

ps, i love how theres even a Beatles book in the backround, hehe keepin with the theme ;)

[wolf25705]

@KrassoSzoreny i'd be scared to see a half eaten dog or cat when i got home o3o

[Harvidz]

the laws of areodynamics is the david to this goliath.

[DavidMcMahon1]

@skogstad Cool thanks :)

[skogstad]

@DavidMcMahon1 They can self right themselves if they can get their foot on something. These insects live in treetops and if they were to fall, they'd just fly. Only in odd situations like here on a carpet would one have trouble. In the wild, there's always something to get ahold of to right themselves.

[skogstad]

@BLOODBATHDAVID Ha, sorry, I already sold it!

[skogstad]

@deadballo No, I had no idea what her lifespan was after I had her for months and she died- thanks for the heads up Captain Obvious.

[DavidMcMahon1]

@chrainbolt I wonder if they can self-right?

[Mysticsloth]

*lol* fail beetle ^^; aww... but really funny, with the cat and the dog, they look like an unusual family...

[BLOODBATHDAVID]

sell me ur gamecube!!!!