Beetle Problem

[Lucanus]

I'm having a beetle infestation....

 

[darktheumbreon]

A good problem to have!

 

[Bugoodle]

I want one!

 

[Ratmosphere]

Yummm crunchy boiz.

 

[Bugoodle]

Rain Beetles. How long do the adults live?

 

[The Mantis Menagerie]

Yummm crunchy boiz.

It was a nice, normal thread until this.  

 

[darktheumbreon]

It was a nice, normal thread until this.  

It's going to be the new normal in the future 

 

[Hisserdude]

Rain Beetles. How long do the adults live?

Nope, triceratops beetles, Phileurus truncatus. Think they're rather long lived for a Dynastid, I forget exactly how long though. 

 

[Bugoodle]

Edit: Whoops! Sorry Hisser Dude! For some reason I got you confused with Lucanus. Up ttoo late, time to take my sleeping pill.

I mean, still, if you or anyone else happen to own these, hit me up. lol

 

[Hisserdude]

Edit: Whoops! Sorry Hisser Dude! For some reason I got you confused with Lucanus. Up ttoo late, time to take my sleeping pill.

I mean, still, if you or anyone else happen to own these, hit me up. lol

Haha well hopefully @Lucanus will have some available in the future if he breeds his adults.

 

[Lucanus]

FYI I have them up for sale

 

[Bugoodle]

Price and Shipping?

 

[Lucanus]

Ended up selling all except 1 pair. That pair produced 7 larvae so far.

 

[Dynastes]

Ended up selling all except 1 pair. That pair produced 7 larvae so far.

I still have a colony going from the ones I got from a certain lucanus in 2017 but breeding and feeding so nuanced I often end up mating them across generations (because they eat each other and males get pinged the most). I swear though before I could add a new generation male I got six eggs a month early and 3 look good. The male in that group was eaten back in March. I don't remember the stock I kept for seven generation in the 90's being quite so trying.

 

[Lucanus]

I still have a colony going from the ones I got from a certain lucanus in 2017 but breeding and feeding so nuanced I often end up mating them across generations (because they eat each other and males get pinged the most). I swear though before I could add a new generation male I got six eggs a month early and 3 look good. The male in that group was eaten back in March. I don't remember the stock I kept for seven generation in the 90's being quite so trying.

I had that problem with my 1st stock so I try to sell off all except 2 pairs for myself for breeding. 

 

[Dynastes]

If I didn't know any better I'd swear the three developing eggs could only be female.

 

[Teneb]

I want a beetle infestation! I would give anything for one!