This one's a handful! It's a giant Hercules Beetle from the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The insect is crawling on a hand, in front of a bright red background.

==Smithsonian Photo #79-1834 by Chip Clark. Copyright 1993 Smithsonian Institution. Do not reproduce without written permission.

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