Post by exoticimports on Jan 25, 2019 9:40:16 GMT -8
As a youth, I dreamed of giant beetles and Ornithoptera. The "big ticket" item my buddy got from his uncle out of state was an amazing Eacles imperialis- wow! Rare! Unobtainable (in our area)!
So now here I sit, many years later- decades after I got a Megasoma elephas and 20 years after I caught my own Megasoma- with four male M. elephas in the relaxing container. No big deal. I have another dozen, these are in the container only to relax so they can be repositioned and shipped safely.
I got them from a guy who had them and needed money; I didn't need them, don't have time to sell them, I was just trying to do my part to help somebody. They're all under 95mm, which ironically is larger than the exciting elephas I bought for my youthful collection 40 years ago.
I look at these, and am both bothered by the consumption of time to relax them, and the fact that at one time they would have had excited me so.
Chuck
