Dynastes hylus.

J

Johnboy

Pupa
I have two pairs of Hylus housed in a 35L breeding container. There seems to be a hell of alot of intimacy going on so I hope this will lead to eggs. I already bred these and have quite a few larvae that are now fast approaching L3. I house the larvae communally, with 5 or 6 in a 9L container without problems, even through the pupal stage. Well, I should say, no problems up until now.
default_biggrin.png


d hylus 45467.jpg

 
My parents find this beautiful species in their yard in Mexico. Unfortunately, I can't bring them back to the US because of the customs issues. I may try to get my parents to raise them though! How long do yours take from egg to adult?

 
it was around the 18 month mark, with some being a little more and some a little less. I have two different bloodlines, the plan being to breed them together is i can get them to emerge at the same time.I have not found them to be a difficult species.

 
Greatwun said:
I like this species because it reminds me of a granti/tityus cross.
Click to expand...
I had exact same thing going on in my mind. I wonder if it is possible to selectively breed the grant/tityus hybrid to produce a line that will look very similar to D. hyllus.

 
I have tityus at the moment, just waiting for the female to emerge after hibernation. Both males seem to be out and about and eating well.

 
Johnboy said:
I have tityus at the moment, just waiting for the female to emerge after hibernation. Both males seem to be out and about and eating well.
Click to expand...
Interesting... I bought a pair of D. tityus from Peter back in October. My male tityus came out of hibernation way early in November and just ate and ate and ate. Then, inexplicably stopped eating and died about two weeks ago. I haven't a clue as to why he died or why he came out of hibernation so early.

Anyway, when the male died, the female immediately came out of hibernation. Talk about bad timing!

Since I don't have another male tityus, my hopes and dreams for rearing a brood of D. tityus beetles just took a nasty nose-dive.

I guess I'll need to advertise on here for a "stud" tityus, or something...

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Lucanus said:
I had exact same thing going on in my mind. I wonder if it is possible to selectively breed the grant/tityus hybrid to produce a line that will look very similar to D. hyllus.
Click to expand...
This would be an great project. I'd love to take side by side comparison photos of them and see just how similar they look.

 
I got D.hyllus as well, let's do the hybrids for sure! It will be interesting to see which genes are dominant.

We could name the hybrid D.Tiyllus.

 
LarvaHunter said:
I got D.hyllus as well, let's do the hybrids for sure! It will be interesting to see which genes are dominant.

We could name the hybrid D.Tiyllus.
Click to expand...
LOL That's a funny name. We could also call them D. tityllus. lol

I would assume the hybrids between the two would look like regular hyllus with minor differences, but we'll never know until we try it

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top