Sculpting Harlequin Longhorn Beetle (Acrocinus longimanus)_Polymer Clay_Life of Clay

Harlequin Longhorn beetle is a large tropical American beetle, widespread in Southern Mexico to Brazil in South America (in most Amazonian Rain Forest), and may also be found in Caribbean territories, such as French Guiana as well as in Trinidad and Tobago. Female has straight forelimbs while curve and longer in males, reaching up to 150mm in length, that they can used not only in communicating with females but also in fighting predators, guarding both the female and the site where she laid their offspring. And they also have very long antennae. The colour of their wing covers is truly a work of art made by the “Creator”, a polychromatic patterns of reddish-orange, black and white/yellow. The main source of their food is wood, bark, sap from the bark of decaying trees and fungi. They also undergo four stages of development (complete metamorphosis), egg, larva, pupa to adult. They are usually solitary and not travel in group, however this beetle exhibit phorecy meaning the other organism called Pseudoscorpio