Recent content by Phil Kuhns

So today while scavaging the woods behind my hows I managed to acquire 3 dorcus parallelus grubs. Never had much interest in the species but I figured I could just experiment in trying to raise them. because the rotten log I found them lodged in was 70% termite/millipede/other stupid stuff...

K so one of my dynastes tityus larvae is over a year old and quite yellow in color but I dont know when it will build a pupal cell. what I am afraid of is that the substrate its in now is not suitable for building pupal cells so I cant tell if its just not ready yet or if it wont build one due...

I keep origami hissing cockroaches! =D

I recently did a re-fold of my D.T. design. This time around, I think the model looks much more like the real beetle! Dynastes Tityus was folded from a single, un-cut square of paper colored yellow on one side and black on the other. What'ya think?

Is slow developement of Tityus grubs linked in any way to a smaller adult? Can they still become majors even though growth rate is behind schedule?

As compensation for a recent art commission from famous insect collector, Dan Capps, he generously sent me several pinned insects from his personal collection! Check these out!!

I recieved 5 early L2 grubs from bugsincyberspace.com at the begining of August. I dug around in the tank today and found one of the grubs at the serface dead! It looked somewhat shrivled and had barely grown since I first got them, but it wasnt at the serface a week ago! I kept digging and...

Check these out! I desinged and folded this origami beetle from a single, un-cut square of paper! The paper was colored black on one side and yellow on the other so I designed it to expose the black on the legs and head, just like the real thing! I know it doesnt have spots, but I would have had...

First of all, I am very new to raising beetles (never done it before). Below I will provide the details to how I created my D. Tityus grub-raising set up. I would then like to hear from those of you who have had expirience raising tityus what you think and if there is anything else I could do to...

Hi! My interest in beetles originated from the artwork I do. Particularly origami! I design and fold many different subjects from squares of paper but have always most enjoyed folding insects! Being able to accuratly, anatomically design an origami insect often requires many google image...