visitors to the Zoo just- now are taking an interest in the Insect House, where .some very wonderful new arrivals are being studied by naturalists (says the London 'Daily Express'). The Goliath beetle, from South America, would send a. British housemaid into hysterics. Jta body, arranged almost clerically in black and white, is nearly five inches long. Itis not poisonous, nor is it intentionally ferocious., bub there is a spot b:-lwten the neck and .shoulders which acts like ;i vice. A linger placed in this aperture would bs broken at- once, and on Saturday la.it a keeper who inserted a key in "the junction'* found that "Goliath" had bent the key merely by shrugging its hhoulders. This great beetle is an inexpensive guest, as he only feeds on fruit which is absolute lv loUen.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13394, 18 September 1907, Page 7
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