Rhinoceros beetle.?

Question

Can they fly and are they dangerous at all? What do you think if I try to kill it and what should I kill it with? A rolled up newspaper?

Nice job copying and pasting off of Wikipedia and the Sunday edition made me laugh but, can they fly and how do they defend themselves or attack?

Answer 1

Rhinoceros beetles ,In spite of their fierce appearance, are all totally harmless: they cannot bite or sting or hurt you with their horns.
Why would you want to kill it?
you could just grab it and throw it it outside

In relevance to your other question,the best protection they have from predators is their usually large size combined with their activity being at night. During the day, they are hiding under logs or in vegetation and invisible from the few predators big enough to want to eat them. Surprisingly, the horn of the male is not used for protection but rather for the occasional battle with another male over a feeding site.
Also using its horns it can dig its way out of a sticky situation by burying itself underground, escaping danger.

Oh and yes they can fly but they go through the forest floor moving leaves out of their way,to avoid danger

Hope this helps

Answer 2

The rhinoceros beetles (or Rhino beetle) are a subfamily (Dynastinae) of beetles in the family of scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae).

They are among the largest of beetles, so named because of the characteristic horns borne by the males of most species in the group. The male beetles use their horns in mating battles against other males.

Their larval stage is long, several years in some species. The larvae feed on rotten wood while the adults feed on nectar, plant sap and fruit.

Rhinoceros beetles are also the strongest animals on the planet, proportionally. They can lift up to 850 times their own weight.To put this into perspective, if a human of average height and weight had the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, it would be able to lift a 65 ton object.
Rhinoceros beetles are popular children's pets in Asia. They are clean, easy to maintain, and safe to handle. In Asian countries, male beetles are also used for gambling fights since they naturally compete for female beetles with the winner knocking the other off a log.
Personally, I don't think a newpaper would be strong enough(unless it was the sunday edition) so use maybe a shovel or trowel.
Picky, are we?
Yes they do fly. They use their big horns to defend themselves, so they will not harm you.

Answer 3

Rhinoceros beetles are cool as heck. I used to play with them all the time when I was little, but I haven't seen one in years. The only way they can hurt you is some of the multi-horned ones can pinch if you put your fingers in the gap between the horns.

Not sure if they can fly, I've never seen them fly, but they're beetles, so they have wings... *shrug*

Instead of smooshing it with a piece of newspaper, scoop it up with a piece of newspaper and put it in your neighbor's yard.