koreascarabs

sorry... i cant because my only female just died a few days after this message was posted... sorry mashku..... ill try to catch some more D. adamsi and breed them.

the pictures didn't come out so well because there wasn't very good lighting...

Here are a few pics of my Dicranocephalus Adamsi. They are reddish because they are old. I used to have a female but she died a few days ago enjoy!

your pictures are AWESOME!!! i just started a digital photography class and i have a Canon EOS REbel and i was wondering what lens you use.

hey guys! im goin beetle huntin tomorrow and i am going to set up a light trap. but i dont know where to position the light so that it can have its full effect.

here is a site where you can order beetles! i believe they can ship them to America. here is the link: http://www.wildlifeinsects.com.au/insects/

what kind of leaves should i add? like should i add oak leaves???

hey guys!!! bow that is is the start of the beetle breeding season here in Korea i just got my hands on a pair of dicranocephalus adamsi and i was wondering if anybody here knew about how to breed these beetles...

answers to problems(hope these would be reasonable) 1.each state could sell their own native species and plus the beetles move to different states to, i found a male D.granti back in Claremont,California but unfortunately the dog got to it and gobbled it up before i could stop it. 2.for the substrate we could just collect dirt from our backyards and sterilize it, or buy topsoil from any of our local botany shops. I just dont get it. What damage could these beetles possibly do? They are sapsuckers so they wont go chomping down on anyones wheat or corn,their larvae are just as important as earthworms by making the soil rich and by breaking down leaf litter and rotting logs, and they would serve as a nutritional food source for any hungry reptile or mammal. The most damage they could do is to fly into peoples hair or give them a little pinch if a person teases the beetle and then sticks his or her finger right between the beetles horns or pincers. You can find D.Hercules at a zoo if you look in the insect area but they wont let people keep native beetles as pets. So why the heck the USDA find these gentle giants harmful i dont know.

in the oriental countries rhino and stag beetles are a BIG business. hundreds among thousands are bred(is that how you spell it?) and caught each year to be put on sale. in japan and korea we have annual beetle fights where kids and adults from all over the country gather to fight their beetles and win the grand prize. and in some other countries adults gamble in gideon beetle fights and some people lose hundreds of dollars because of the fights!

i have been dreaming about this for a very long time and i think most of you guys have dreamed about his too. before i moved to korea i was in desperate need of a rhino beetle. i was taking care of enough cotinis texana to last anybody their lifetime. i searched, hunted and surfed the web but didnt find a single thing except for some more cotinis texana!!! i tried every pet shop to see if they sold beetles there but not a single beetle! sad sad sad...i was stuck in California trying desperately to find a dynastid or a lucanid where in Japan people were buying A.dichotoma in VENDING MACHINES and getting their favorite stag beetles at their local depaartment stores, they were even getting their hands on some chalcasoma and dynastes species! so during that time i was wondering where the heck is america in the pet trade industry! in Japan people are buying what some other people in america need to travel cross country for in vending machines! i decided someone has to bring the rhino beetle and stag beetle into the pet trade in America. if we could just educate the people and make the beetles look appealing to the crowd then it could be a big boom in the pet industry! i was reading a book about extreme pets and when i flipped to the creepy crawlies section i found the following:giant millipedes, monarch butterflies, silkworms, even madagascan hissing roaches! but not a single beetle. so i was wondering if people could increase their breeding stock and their collections then maybe we could publicize beetles in America! and then we could be able to buy beetles at our local department stores! an A. dichotoma vending machine

hi rhino beetle! im a new guy too! there is alot of great stuff here and some tips and tricks on raising beetles. a good way of getting stag beetles to lay is to soak the log you are going to use in water for a day and then shave off all the bark. the damp wood makes it easier for the female to dig into and therefore you get more eggs!

go to www.stagbeetles.com the pictures are great!so are the videos!