Recent content by darktheumbreon

Looking to buy Dorcus parallelus and Dorcus brevis (or even possibly trade). Also looking for Megasoma vogti and Megasoma punctulatum.

Cross posting content from an international forum per request. This is a new method so I will say I cannot be accountable for anything bad that may happen from it.  I use a recipe of 100g ~ 200g of wheat bran (you can substitute with soybean hulls) and 1000g of oak fuel pellets. I sterilize it...

Not sure if there are many people in this forum who are familiar with chemistry, but I was always wondering if its possible to create a product that is similar to white rotten wood with parts of the Kraft process. The Kraft process could potentially be used to breakdown the lignin-cellulose bond...

Just wanted to share this because this was a very interesting read. http://insectforum.no-ip.org/gods/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=20566&show=100 This insect forum outlines utilizing a rice cooker in a similar way as the fancy Japanese composting machine. The whole idea...

Currently in search of US native Megasoma species. Species include:  Megasoma vogti, Megasoma punctulatum, and Megasoma sleeperi. I highly prefer more than just a couple specimens, unless it is a WC female, because I hope to breed them to spread in the hobby. PM if you are able to get your hands...

I was wondering, for maximum egg laying of the female, how often you should let the female stag beetles mate with the female? Does the female only lay one batch per mating? Or is it like other animals where she can store the sperm for multiple batches?

After looking at all the fancy containers that they use for beetles in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, I was thinking about how much space my beetle grubs have been taking up lately, and how much space they would take up in the future as well. Thus, I was wondering on what space saving ideas...

It crawls quite fast with its legs, makes me think its a flower beetle of some sort? Edit: Forgot to mention, found in wood chips.

I was reading this article here: https://www.beetlebreeding.ch/dynastes-hercules-hercules-by-kay/ It references a 90/10 bark compost and chicken compost mixture to achieve large Dynastes hercules beetles based on H. Kojima... Could this mixture be also beneficial to the native US Dynastes beetles?

I've noticed that the Eastern Hercules Beetle (D. tityus) is talked about far more often than the Western Hercules Beetle (D. grantii) and is often much more available. Is this purely due to its captive longevity? I would've assumed the Grant's beetle would be more popular due to its length?

Looking to buy Lucanidae or Dynastid beetles, larvae or adult.

Ordered a group of L3 Dynastes tityus larvae from Carlc1 for a good deal, they arrived great with excellent packaging. I would deal with Carlc1 again if I ever needed something he had.

Looking for any adult native US stag beetle.

I was wondering what the maximum temperature that D. tityus larvae can be raised in. I was also wondering do higher temperatures lead to shorter development time? I have read it causes the lifespan to shorten, but does it also make the larvae go to maturity quicker? Are there conditions that are...