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My son's birthday is coming up next month and I was wondering if anyone had any cool looking darkling beetles for sale or trade for his community tank. Anything with any cool body shape or size or color. I thought this guy, Eleodes caudiferus, was pretty neat looking myself. I'd also be very...

I'm thinking about getting some more darkling beetles. The weather is really mild this time of year in Texas. The high is 85 for the next week. I was wondering if 2 day shipping would be safe for them since it is so mild. Let me know your opinions.

I have many adult Eleodes goryi and little larva for trade or sale. I'd rather trade them though for other darkling beetles or millepedes. They breed very readily and their larva appear to be easy to raise. They are active all the time. All day and all night some are moving around though they...

Here's my Eleodes goryi 2.5 gallon tank. They really like to climb on that rock, there are almost always two on the top of it, wiggling their antenna around. The females like to dig down backwards about twice their length, shaking their bums, then come up filling in the holes. I believe they are...

I got a picture! Look how tiny he is. The font behind him is legalese from a credit card statement so it's very small.

I'm not sure what these are? I just caught these Eleodes goryi this morning and two of them have little brown things attached to them. It almost looks like someone super glued a sesame seed to the beetles. Any ideas?

I know the Blue ones can live for many years but what about the Black (Cryptoglossa variolos) or Smooth (Asbolus Laevis) ones?

I think it is a stag beetle but I'm not sure. It is about 2 inches long and it stinks when it is disturbed. It is quick and has jaws of doom.

I let my 5 year old son rear a superworm from the pet store and he really liked it and it was interesting except for the part when my 3 year got a hold of it before it was dry and now its elytron kind of looks like crinkled paper... I was thinking of trying some Eleodes spinipes. Any tips on...

I finally found the Elodes goryi I have been seeking! I decided today would be the day so the dog and I struck out on the park trails only to find squished goryi after squished goryi when finally we came across a living, unsquished, one! Yay! On our triumphant return we found another live goryi...

I haven been trying to figure out what kind of Darkling beetle "Speedy" is for awhile now and I just can't seem to come up with an answer. Does anyone know? He is smaller than my Eleodes subnitens and bigger than the Eleodes osculans. Super fast and super active, he also seems to like to burrow...

My 3-year-old found these guys under the peeling bark of a post oak tree in Austin, Texas. One is dead, one is very much alive. I think they are Hardwood Stump Boar Beetles. They are about 2 inches long, brown and have big painful looking jaws on their somewhat scary looking faces. We also found...