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So I decided to pull a few larvae that looked ready to pupate out of my mixed species desert beetle tank and set them up in a pupation chamber expecting to get some more little black darklings(species unknown) like I did last time I tried this and to my amazement I got this. Meet my freshly...

My Pasimachus sp. beetle has been dragging it's prey under the substrate lately. It's taken 2 fairly good sized roaches in the last 2 days. My question is do they eat underground or is it stashing food? I don't want a bunch of dead or half eaten roaches where I can't get to them to remove them...

I got a Pasimachus sp. beetle a couple of days ago and I've read that cocofiber/sand mixture is good for substrate for them but I can't find any information on how deep it should be. I currently have it housed on about an inch of moist cocofiber until I can buy some sand (ironic since I live at...

This is the best I could do with the unidentified teneb, I think this is the female but the male is close to the same size about 2cm without legs and antenna

I moved my mixed species desert beetles into a larger enclosure yesterday and discovered several small larva in the old substrate.I'm not sure what species they are. I've observed mating by Eleodes Osculans, an unidentified small teneb species,and a Nyctoporis species which I believe is...

Sorry I don't know the scientific name of this beetle but I'm new to keeping inverts. I noticed that small white larva were crawling out of my female beetle's rear end. Since I know they lay eggs I'm assuming that it's some kind of parasite. Does anyone know what this may be? There were 2 in the...