Horned hercules

The Horned Hercules (known as the Hercules Beetle prior to ), is a bug in the introduced in. As with many rare stag beetles, it is found in palm trees and usually from late afternoon through early morning. It is tied with the Golden Stag and the Giraffe Stag as the most valuable bug in the, selling for 12,000 Bells. Due to this, the insect is sensitive to movement the player makes. The player must move slowly, even slower than max crouching speed, to be close enough to catch the Horned Hercules.

In
In, the Horned Hercules is a lucky item during summer, meaning it gives a 777-point Happy Home Academy bonus when placed in the player's house.

Donating to the museum
Blathers makes these comments when the insect is donated to the museum.

In
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 the Golden Stag has also been donated, both will fight on the stump, picking each other up and tipping one another over.

In
In, 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 fighting each other. The exhibit has this to say about the Horned Hercules:

Commissioning a model
In, if the player brings three Horned Herculeses to Flick 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!"

Real-world information
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.