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Zach Lehmann, visitor programs manager for the Audubon Insectarium, holds an elephant beetle, which is being exhibited at the facility in New Orleans. It's the first time the New Orleans bug museum has been able to get live elephant beetles since it opened in June 2008. Lemann said the beetles are hard to get because there's no regular supplier in Central America, where the beetles are native

Live elephant beetles displayed at New Orleans museum

Elephant beetles certainly deserve their name; now you can see one at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans.

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