White Excrement

[jake7917]

New to beetle keeping. I have an Osmoderma scabra that I was handling, and it released a white fluid from its abdomen. It seemed to come from a large opening. It didn’t seem to give off any odour. This was yesterday.
 

Today it was walking around the container fine but I found it flipped over, with some of this white stuff leaking out. I was wondering if this is just its excrement, or if the beetle is hurt in some way and that’s its insides spilling out. The gap seemed large and it just worries me.

 

[Goliathus]

It's meconium - the waste materials left over from the pupation stage.  Is the beetle rather recently emerged?

 

[JKim]

It can be meconium as mentioned above, but also could be a regular fece. Color depends highly on what they are being fed, but it seems Cetoniines often and regularly secret white feces compared to others like Dynastines or Lucanids.

 

[Goliathus]

It can be meconium as mentioned above, but also could be a regular fece. Color depends highly on what they are being fed, but it seems Cetoniines often and regularly secret white feces compared to others like Dynastines or Lucanids.

True, and I do recall that when I was rearing Osmoderma eremicola, their feces was in fact typically white, even long after they had emerged from their pupal cells.  I have also noticed this in Euphoria fulgida.

 

[jake7917]

It's meconium - the waste materials left over from the pupation stage.  Is the beetle rather recently emerged?

They were bred this season. I didn’t raise from a larvae, I bought it as a beetle so it’s hard to say exactly.

 

[Ratmosphere]

Could always be some good ole beetle poo.