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| Atlas Beetle | |
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| Scientific Name | Chalcosoma atlas |
| Appearances | Animal Crossing: Wild World Animal Crossing: City Folk |
| Location | On Palm Trees |
| Date Availability | June - August |
| Time Availability | 5pm - 8am |
| Sales Price | 8,000 Bells |
| Size | 120mm |
The Atlas Beetle is one of the various rare beetles available to capture in both Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk.
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[edit] How to Catch
Rumour has it that these beetles are more likely to be caught in the summer rain. They can be found on palm trees.
[edit] Player
This is what your player says when you catch a Atlas Beetle:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
"I caught an atlas beetle! It's black and looks tough! It's the strongest beetle!"
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
"I caught an atlas beetle! At last, beetle!"
[edit] Menu
When looking at the Atlas Beetle in the bug menu it will say this:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
These beetles are the strongest in the world.
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
The world's strongest beetles have three horns--the keys to their strength!
[edit] Museum
If you donate this bug to the Museum, Blathers will say this:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
"I find most things about beetles like this repellant, but the MOST repellant are the thin wings that they keep hidden inside. You know of what I speak? After landing, seeing that little piece of wing sticking out of their backs! Blech! Just another example of how insects scoff at proper manners and tidiness!"
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
"Crowned with three horns, the atlas beetle is known as the strongest of the dynastid beetles(*). Blech, I wonder if it had three horns when it was in its larval form... I simply loathe larvae. All squishy and squirmy... Nightmarish, really."
[edit] Real Life
The Peacock Butterfly is a species of butterfly that is native to Japan. When in the caterpillar stage of their life, these bugs work on a consistent diet of cork tree and prickly-ash plants. When fully grown, the female ends up with more elaborate wing designs than the male.
