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mrcos

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  • Birthday 08/13/1986

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    Necrophagous insects, family Silphidae; Mantodea

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  1. Hi, so far I have been successful enough to get 3 larvae from my pair of Anthia cinctipennis. I gave them about 10 cm of moist sand and soil, fed them ad libitum with crickets and mealworms and sprayed them frequently with water. Apparently they need quite deep substrate for breeding, moist enough for creating burrow/breeding chamber for laying eggs. They also like to drink quite a lot and mating seems to be triggered by spraying with water. I`m feeding the larvae with land isopods, pre-killed mealworms and crickets, but they like mealworm pupae best. The pupae are also quite safe food, since they do not move around and fight back. I also keep all the Anthia 3 larvae separately to avoid canibalism. Hope to get them to imago
  2. Hello everybody, I`m Petr from Czech republic. Currently I`m working at Charles University in Prague on my master thesis about necrophagous insects and succesion of small carcasses. I`m also taking care of some inverts for education purposes at the university and currently have two jesus lizards (Basiliscus vittatus) to cheer me up I found this forum while searching for some info about Anthia beetles breeding - I will add some of my own findings.
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