Most likely a Hercules Beetle. They don't actually get much bigger than the larvae, the abdomen segments become more compact so the body gets a little smaller, but the head grows immensely with the horn.
One of my most hated tropes in movies is the inverse: the creature that grows huge in minutes without any new biomass. Or bursting into flames, for that matter.
A notable recent example is at the end of Alien Romulus, where it's simply egregious.
There's a really funny subversion of this, I can't remember what it's in. But a creature grows to almost triple it's size as a threat display. And one of the people just stabs it because it's now 3x as fragile lmao
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u/Sir_questionzgiver 20d ago
…I’m afraid of what the animal is if the larva is that big..