Horned hercules
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| Name:Dynastes hercules Family:Scarabaeidae - Scarab Beetles sub. Dynastinae | ||||||||
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Names in other languages ヘラクレスオオカブト 长戟大兜虫 長戟大兜蟲 헤라클레스장수풍뎅이 Scarabée Hercule Scarabée Hercule Escarabajo astado hércules Escarabajo astado hércules Scarabeo Ercole Жук-геркулес Herkuleskäfer Herculeskever | ||||||||
Thehorned hercules (known as thehercules beetle prior toNew Leaf) is abug in theAnimal Crossing series introduced inDoubutsu no Mori e+. As with many rare stag beetles, it is found inpalm trees and usually from late afternoon through early morning. It is tied with thegolden stag and thegiraffe stag as the most valuable bug in theAnimal Crossing series, selling for 12,000Bells. Due to this, the insect is sensitive to movement theplayer makes. The player must move slowly, even slower than max crouching speed, to be close enough to catch the horned hercules.
InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, it appears from mid to latesummer.
Catch details[edit]
InDoubutsu no Mori e+[edit]
InWild World[edit]
"I caught a hercules beetle! The largest beetle in the world!"
| Description | The largest beetles in the world. |
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| Time of year | Jul – Aug |
| Time of day | 11 PM – 8 AM |
| Peak times | N/A |
| Location | On palm trees |
| Bug size | 160 mm |
| Selling price |  12,000Bells |
| Furniture size |  |
InCity Folk[edit]
"I caught a hercules beetle! It's the greatest beetle of them all!"
| Description | The world's largest beetle can easily carry up to 5 pounds! |
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| Time of year | Jul – Aug |
| Time of day | 5 PM – 8 AM |
| Peak times | N/A |
| Location | On palm trees |
| Bug size | 160 mm |
| Rarity | Very rare |
| Selling price | 12,000Bells |
| Furniture size | |
InNew Leaf[edit]
"I caught a horned hercules! Who's the mighty one now?"
| Time of year | Jul – Aug All year (Tortimer Island) |
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| Time of day | 5 PM – 8 AM |
| Peak times | N/A |
| Location | On palm trees (can be found onTortimer Island) |
| Size | 160 mm |
| Rarity | Mythical |
| Selling price | 12,000Bells |
| Furniture size | |
InPocket Camp[edit]
| Availability (Pocket Camp Complete) | Summer |
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| Availability (Pocket Camp) | Not currently available
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| Location |  Sunburst Island |
| Size | 146.9 mm – 173.2 mm |
| Rarity | ★★★ |
| Selling price | 6,000Bells |
| Version added | Unknown |
| Villager gift data | Tier: 4 (Rare) Rewards:
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Sparkle stones (1.6%)
Friendship pointsInNew Horizons[edit]
InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, the horned hercules is alucky item duringsummer, meaning it gives a 777-pointHappy Home Academy bonus when placed in the player's house.
"I caught a horned hercules! Guess I was stronger!"
| Time of year | North: Jul – Aug South: Jan – Feb |
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| Time of day | 5 PM – 8 AM |
| Location | On palm trees |
| Weather | Any weather |
| Spawn requirement | Catch 100 total bugs |
| Selling prices |  Nook's Cranny: 12,000Bells Flick: 18,000Bells |
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Donating to the museum[edit]
Blathers makes these comments when the insect is donated to the museum.
InWild World[edit]
InCity Folk[edit]
After donation, the hercules beetle can be found on the second tier of the insect section in the first enclosure, walking on the tree stump towards the back. Once thegolden stag has also been donated, both will fight on the stump, picking each other up and tipping one another over.
InNew Leaf[edit]
InNew Leaf, the horned hercules is found in the right-hand back room on the large tree stump in the center. If the golden stag is also donated, the two will be in a constant battle; the hercules flipping the golden stag with a punchy thud, then the golden stag flipping the hercules, and so on. The exhibit has this to say about the horned hercules:
InNew Horizons[edit]
Commissioning a model[edit]
InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, if the player brings three horned herculeses toFlick to commission a model, he will say the following:
"R-really? You want a sculpture of a horned hercules? The sublime spear of the heavens? Its mottled shell is a reflection of the negative sky of the Infested Realms it defends with its mighty horn! I promise this will be my pokey-est masterpiece, and I shall title it The Grand Horned Hercules!"
Gallery[edit]
Doubutsu no Mori e+
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Real-world information[edit]
The hercules beetle is the most famous and largest of the rhinoceros beetles. It is native to the rainforests of Central America and South America. The size of this beetle includes the length of its horn, which without would make it considerably smaller than other species. Some females can exceed the size of the male Hercules beetle by body alone. The hercules beetle is considered the strongest creature on earth relative to its size–it can handle 850 times its own body weight. They eat decaying fruit and the larvae of the beetle spends one to two years tunneling into rotten wood.
Names in other languages[edit]
 | ヘラクレスオオカブト herakuresu-ō-kabuto | Lit. "Heracles giant helmet (bug)" |
 | 헤라클레스장수풍뎅이 herakeulleseujangjupungdeng-i | Lit. "Heracles rhinoceros beetle" |
 | 长戟大兜虫 chángjǐ dàdōuchóng | Lit. "Long-speared giant helmet bug" |
 | 長戟大兜蟲 Unknown | |
 | Жук-геркулес Zhuk-gerkules | Lit. "Hercules beetle" |
 | Herculeskever | Lit. "Hercules beetle" |
 | Herkuleskäfer | Lit. "Hercules beetle" |
 | Escarabajo astado hércules | Hercules horned beetle |
 | Scarabée Hercule | Lit. "Hercules scarab" |
 | Scarabeo Ercole | Lit. "Hercules scarab" |
Notes[edit]
- ↑All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.
- ↑Possibly due to a developer oversight, tree insects can not spawn on palm trees, or fruit trees that do not currently bear fruit. Due to its exclusivity to Animal Island, catching the Hercules Beetle requires planting a non-palm tree on the island.
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