Reply #14: A rhinoceros beetle in Ecuador in 75 (there's one in a post below)

[librechik]

About 8 inches long counting the horn. They Fly! One night we were sitting out on the porch and something fell onto the floor next to me. I thought somebody had thrown a dried rose branch up to us in the dark, but it was a rhino beetle that had been flying up against the street light. When I figured out what it was I didn't want it crawling around in my room (we were sleeping in bags on the floor)
so I put a heavy ceramic chamber pot over it. In the morning I found the chamber pot flipped over and the bug gone!