Lucanus

[Ryan Minard]

Met Alan (AKA LUCANUS) today in person! He's a great guy and he pulled 5 Dynastes out of his backpack and gave me 4.

I gave him a Dorcus brevis male in return as well as some random larvae (including dorcus brevis).

I'll upload Dynastes tityus pictures later!

A++++++ for Lucanus! Great guy and great collector!

Hope to trade again!

P.S. some of those "small lucanid larvae" (if they are all alive) should be platycerus and some lucanus. Those were extras. The main larvae for you are the Dorcus. They look a lot different and should be given very decayed substrate (preferably white oak) like the stuff they are in...

Anyways, just thought I'd add this!

I recommend Lucanus/Alan.

 

[Lucanus]

I really enjoyed being with you today

All of the larvae that you gave me today are doing fine right now. I will post the pictures once I get settled.

I believe that all the small lucanus sp. larvae are Lucanus elaphus larvae. I haven't checked all of them but the ones I checked were Lucanus elaphus.

If you find a tiny stag beetle larvae that has milky body and pale white head capsule, you are most likely to have collected Platycerus larva. You will definately notice the difference between Lucanus larvae and Platycerus larvae once you find them.

I heard that Strategus aloeus aren't found in South Caroline. I have 4 males right now and appearantly I have two more as well. If I collect some S. aloeus females this year, I will send a pair for you

 

[Ryan Minard]

I really enjoyed being with you today

All of the larvae that you gave me today are doing fine right now. I will post the pictures once I get settled.

I believe that all the small lucanus sp. larvae are Lucanus elaphus larvae. I haven't checked all of them but the ones I checked were Lucanus elaphus.

If you find a tiny stag beetle larvae that has milky body and pale white head capsule, you are most likely to have collected Platycerus larva. You will definately notice the difference between Lucanus larvae and Platycerus larvae once you find them.

I heard that Strategus aloeus aren't found in South Caroline. I have 4 males right now and appearantly I have two more as well. If I collect some S. aloeus females this year, I will send a pair for you

That would be great... and yeah... those larvae were VERY small when I collected them so it was quite hard for me to tell. Only a few turned out to be platycerus... So ya... they have very small heads. I didn't really check those extras but oh well... there are never enough elaphus, right? Haha!

P.S. I have some small larvae with HUGE heads right now. I assume they are elaphus as well. I'd like to get better at larval identification, to tell you the truth. I can identify dorcus easily... and capreolus is easy to spot as well...

 

[hardshell]

lucanus is a very nice guy who knows about beetles and other bugs... we did a trade and i got L3 instead of L1 which was my deal... i got very healthy looking larvae and looks very fat

they all survived and is eating crazy!!! im looking very forward to do more bussiness with him

i really recommend him!!!

 

[a.ojala]

Good guy