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The first step to the scientific method is to state
the problem: What is it? Gather information is the next step which was
done by looking in books and on the Internet. The third step would
have to be to form a hypothesis. The beetle is a Giant Root Borer. The
next step is to test the hypothesis and that was done by looking at
tons of pictures of different beetles comparing the beetle to the
pictures seen. The second to last step is to analyze the data you
collected to prove the hypothesis correct. The last step is to
conclude your experiment and it seems that the hypothesis was correct.
Its regular name is the Giant Root Borer. Its Genus species is
Derobachus geminatas. Its habitat is the coniferous forests, mixed
or deciduous. The range it lives in is southern California north to
Alaska, east across Canada and the northern United States, south to
northern Florida, and west to New Mexico. For its food the larva eats
live, dying, and decomposing trees, shrubs, and woody vines.
Now, to explain its life
cycle. Eggs are laid singly in soil close to food supply. Larvae eat
the inner bark. After three or more years, larvae prepare egg shaped
pupal cells inside the wood. Adults emerge from July to August.
Primarily nocturnal, adults buzz loudly in flight. They are attracted
to light, sometimes crashing violently against window panes. They are
the largest North American long-horned beetles, rivaling in weight the
Rhinoceros Scarab. Also, this beetle is a female because it has an
ovipositor and only females have ovipositor.
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