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  • Birthday 04/25/1986

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    Music, beetles, mantids, coding, 3D printing, propmaking, reading, gaming, the list goes on.

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  1. I don't even skate and I'm behind this.
  2. Welcome to the forum, Mike! Sounds like you'll have a lot of interesting observations to share!
  3. Congrats, man! I just had a similar small win in discovering that 96% of my collected D tityus eggs hatched and are into L2 already. Always makes the day better!
  4. Welcome to the forum. You've got my favorite beetle there, and he's beautiful! Enjoy!
  5. Apparently, none of my BDFBs have any sense of self-preservation. They don't bother with playing dead at all, really. Just a couple cell phone pics.
  6. Just taking some random shots in natural light and got a few I liked enough to share.
  7. Is it an issue of correct sub and temps, or is it still a bit of a mystery? I know several other flower beetles make very hard/crusty pupal cells, but I've read C mutabilis cells are fragile and shouldn't even be moved. Thanks for the article!
  8. Okay, finally home, and had a chance to check out Orin’s Ultimate Guide. I need to get some reptile sand to mix in with the leaf litter sub, but otherwise I think I’m alright. I was skimming so I may have missed some info (particularly on feeding), but the book seemed pretty broad and more focused on exotic flower beetles. I would still welcome any advice the members here have to offer. I find it’s often more helpful than the info I find on my own.
  9. Sorry in advance, I’m just in a rush, completely unprepared, and between appointments at the moment. My wife and I went to a local farm/orchard to pick some fruit, and I ended up finding loads of figeaters, which I have never seen in Vegas before. I managed to find a container with a lid and catch 10 or so (haven’t counted). I’ve got them separated into 3 32oz cups right now with a couple handfuls of oak flake sub in the bottom for humidity, and some of the eggplant leaves I found them on. I need to move them into a proper communal container when I get home I want to assume these guys have very similar needs to G thula, but not sure. Would I be good keeping them in a tank with a few inches of leaf litter substrate and some furniture or leaves to climb on? I’ve notice these guys are HIGHLY active fliers, and I’m not sure if it would be better to limit vertical space to discourage that for their own safety. I’m extremely short on jellies right now; will these guys do okay on mashed banana, cantaloupe, watermelon, orange, etc? Do the larvae just need a leaf litter sub like G thula? Any required protein supplements like some of the African flower beetles? Anything special required to encourage ovipositing? Finally (I think), any way to sex adults? Thanks in advance!
  10. Welcome to the forum! D tityus is a really fun species!
  11. I've never had a single interest in owning cockroaches... and now here we are... 😑
  12. I know this is a bit old, but G thula are not picky at all. By all means, go with the best you can give them, but I can confirm that they will do fine multigenerationally on borderline garbage substrate. Without going into the details, money got really tight, and I ended up raising two generations of G thula on organic top soil from (like $4 or $5 for 40lbs) and just straight-up dried shredded oak leaves. They weren't rotten at all, just freshly collected from the surface that season. The larvae ate the leaf material with no problem, only leaving the steam portions, and went through quite a bit of the top soil as well. The adults came out fine, bred, lived a long time, and their offspring hatched and lived entirely off of that same sub (with a fresh introduction of the same dried shredded oak leaves), eclosed to adulthood the same size and colors as their parents, and similar bred and are currently ovipositing. Like I said, I'm sure they would do better with higher quality sub, but they do okay on sub-optimal materials. Somewhat related: the females will lay eggs on a flat barely moist paper towel. #yolo apparently.
  13. lol well crap... there's a possibility that just any Scarabaeidae frass would work (if you've kept any), but I'd have to defer to those who know more than myself.
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