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I've seen a video of these on YouTube posted a few years back. Are thse still in culture anywhere?

Does anyone have any experience of rearing Blaps, or more specifically Blaps gigas. I met a nice lady at a recent bug show who brought a couple of Blaps gigas back to the UK from Morocco. Her beetles are laying and the eggs are hatching, the larvae grow happily but then fail to pupate and die...

I've read about this "variety" of the more usual White Spot Assassin bug and even found an old video on You-tube from "bugsincyberspace", but I have never seen any for sale anywhere. Anyone know if this yellow spot form is still in culture anywhere?

It's been a few years since I last saw any live Mantichora for sale at a show in Germany. I went to a show in the UK last weekend and could not resist getting a pair of these. So far the female has destroyed a Morio worm and a medium sized locust - those jaws seem to make short work of...

I'm having a second / 3rd attempt at rearing Giant Water Bugs - Abedus sp. - and am still running into problems, so any advice would be useful. Previously I tried with a couple of batches of small nymphs - these were kept in small pots / deli cups with either small amounts of java moss or...

A nice beetle blog, this weeks' entry is about Elodes. http://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/black-olives-with-legs/

Hi all I found this site a couple of weeks ago. I'm a beetle breeder based in the UK. As well as being involved in the conservation work for a couple of the UKs rarer beetle species like the Noble Chafer Gnorimus nobilis and the Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus, I breed / have bred a range of...