Hercules beetles can grow as large as 180 millimetres (7 inches).
It's good to stalk
It's good to stalk Recent studies have hinted that plants may
coordinate their growth and responses to the environment by using
genetic messengers. Scientists investigating pumpkins have
discovered that molecules carrying genetic messages are passed
through the inter- connected stalks that they are attached to. This
finding may have biologists rethink their ways of studying plant
genes. 9 OCTOBER 1999, P. 19