Megasoma pacheoci question

I heard a rumor about some Southern or Central American Megasoma species occasionally fly over to the southern boarder of Texas, but never seen or heard of actual record being exist. It is just a doubtful potential I guess... The known host plants for Megasoma pachecoi are Cercidium torreyanum and Parkinsonia aculeata.

 
DynastesDee said:
Great, that’s good to know.
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By the way, I never really heard of scarabs being attracted to plants like the way they are attracted to pheromone, or any sort of actively attracting medium in traps... Just because you have that tree at your backyard, doesn't mean the beetles are flying over to your place... I hope this is not what you were trying to do... Even if a forest is full of the host plant of certain species, unless that particular species is introduced into that forest, they won't be found (pretty obvious, right?)

 
True - the only dynastine scarabs that I've ever actually found on tree trunks (Mesquite) was Megasoma punctulatus.  But, that's by no means the most reliable way to find this species - looking for them at lights is far more efficient.

 
Yes, obviously you can’t plant a small tree expecting to catch rhino beetles 100% of the time. There are other factors too, like climate, location, vegetation, etc. I was just asking because it would be nice to find a small population of them living in the US.

 
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