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Hi Friends,

About 10 cm ..
Could it have come to lay their eggs in the fig tree?

Thanks,

Hi,
you are right, it's a Batocera rufomaculata De Geer, 1775; is a pest for many kinds of fruit trees, ficus to.....but 10 cm are too much, usually are from 3 to 6 cm long.
Anyway very nice to see alive, once died the yellow color on the sides became white and the red spots on the elitra became yellow.

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Carlo Arrigo

"Solo un entomologo può capire il piacere da me provato nel cacciare per ore in qua e in là, sotto il sole cocente, tra i rami e i ramoscelli e la corteccia degli alberi caduti"
Alfred Russel Wallace

Thanks Carlo,

In case of death it turns yellow to white, red color turns to yellow.
Did I get right?
Although the fig pest, I am not in favor of killing.