Recent content by davehuth

Update: Beetles have taken to the new fresh bracket that I placed in to give an alternative to the bracket from Feb. that was growing mold. I’ve set it into a dry corner of the enclosure and the mold appears to be fading.  however, on the bottom stump of the moldy fungus, many beetles are...

Update: Too dry? Too moist? Who knows? After a year all original beetles remain alive. Honestly they seem able to adapt and deal with many environmental conditions, but how to induce egg laying remains a challenge. Either I haven’t yet cracked the code, or the brackets contain larvae that I...

Hello –  Carabid beetles have begun to emerge where I live in Western NY state (USA). I'll be making numerous collecting excursions starting this week.  I've had the best luck keeping the following species, and would be happy to collect for sale or trade: ----------- Carabus sp. (probably...

So things seemed to be lagging the last couple months. It became hard to locate the beetles in the enclosure. The soft brackets were getting funky, the hard brackets were frequently dry and rarely had beetles on them. I cracked open the edges of a couple more pieces and still no sign of larvae...

Glad this thread was revived, so i could reply. These really gotta be among the most special to me. Mostly because of the ways they've been part of my home and life, forming good memories and emotional connections.

Update:  After about 8 months, the majority of these Phellopsis (perhaps all?) appear to be healthy.  I began this project with 8 adults collected in May-June 2019. They continue to feed/burrow on multiple species of shelf fungus. The softer ones have been gnawed to dust.  I keep them on a...

Thanks for tagging me @All About Arthropods. You and others here have helped bring several cool lines of Tenebrionidae into my life.  This family of beetles has really captured my affections, and I have numerous projects going in my bug room. I was hooked by native desert species, because of...

Hi - I thought I’d update about this fun Allobates project.  At 7+ months, most of the beetles I collected remain alive and active, mostly at night. They cluster together under wood pieces or burrowed into wood during the day.  i keep the enclosure humid (damp substrate, low ventilation) but...

I’ve collected what I take to be 1 male and 2 female Pole Borer Longhorn Beetles (Neandra brunnea). The females were found in the forest on the trunks of standing dead oak trees and the male came to a black light. It took a while to ID them because they look more like stags than Cerambycids! A...

Just a brief update-- For whatever reason, I've stopped finding these in the wild the last couple weeks (though they're very cryptic as you can see in the photo below, which contains 3 individuals...) I've divided the enclosure into 2 halves. 1. a slightly damp side of leaf litter, bark...

I Hello - I'm wondering about interest people might have in aquatic beetles? We're having one of western NY state's wettest summers in a decade, and the diving beetles with pretty yellow markings are exploding everywhere. Fairly sure they're Acilius mediatus. The Internet says these are...

Hello, Beetle Brain Trust – Recently I've been attracting really cool looking Earth-Boring Scarabs to lights in the forest near my home (Western NY state). Are these interesting and easy enough to keep (for a beginner?)? They are close to an inch long and seem energetic when they're out and...

One of the most productive location for finding new beetles this year has been a bracket mushroom covered hemlock tree about a half mile hike from my house. I'm blown away by the diverse ecosystem of creatures assembled around fungal colonies. One of the biggest thrills has been discovering...