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I did some more searching and found someone mentioning cervus needing clay soil, and that possibly applying to elaphus. I took a look NC since it has the most observations on iNat, and also looked up if NC had clay soil. According to my search, the center "Pledmont" region is known for it's clay...

I've been blacklighting frequently for the past year, my main goal has been getting lucanus elaphus. But in this time I've become a little puzzled in where they seem to be common or not, and was wondering if anyone had some insight. I had mainly been blacklighting in 2 locations (no sightings...

I'm admittedly not the best photographer (especially when the subject is squirming around) but I tried to get as good of a shot as possible of the head.  Found in KY, USA.

Another catch from a few days ago. Size scale.  If you're wondering, the female I was using as bait.  I'm not sure if it actually worked but I did catch a male so maybe?

Caught these little guys a few days ago.  There is a second female but she was shy and ran to the bottom of the lid.

Struggling to post photos lol site limit is wack but here is one of his leg, it's black maybe halfway up to the elbow, also you can see some debris fell in the chamber, any ideas on how to remove

My stag beetle larvae has been just sitting at the bottom of it's container for over a month.  I checked on it today and noticed one of it's legs looked black, I think others had black tips.  I'm guessing this is not good, is he on his way out?  He's still moving.

I found some stag beetle larvae about two years ago when I originally posted, since then I was occasionally changing out their media, but I actually don't remember the last time I changed it now, it's been probably at least 6 months.  I remember someone mentioning that if they need food they...

I drilled a small hole in the bottom of my container I am rearing one of my beetle grubs in to let excess water drain out from when I moistened the media.  My grub found this hole 2 days ago, and although he can't fit through it, he has been biting at it non stop for the past two days ( it's...

And then here is the one I have been keeping, nothing seems to be visible.  Not sure if any breeders can confirm, but seems like this should be a male if the article in the first post is correct?

Here's the second grub I found today, also with that yellow/orange organ visible.

So I was not able to compare my larvae to anything, until now!  I examined my larvae for maybe 10-15 minutes, could not find any sign of the ovaries.  However I also could not definitively figure out if I was able to find the black dot for the terminal ampulla, it seemed like it was possible but...

http://maria.fremlin.org/Fremlin_Hendriks_EB_2014.pdf I was reading the above article, and on the second page it mentions two ways to sex a cervus, is this universal for all stag beetle grubs, for example north american species?  From what I understand the first method, looking for the black...

1) Hasn't died yet 🤞 2) no idea yet 3) Yeah it set up it's chamber at the bottom of the cup I have it in.  It's been staying there since it burrowed there so good sign I guess 4) Yeah I've noticed it seems to be spreading around this different colored stuff, not sure if it's waste or what...

My stag beetle larvae burrowed immediately when I put it in it's substrate, which makes me wonder, how do you know your larvae is eating?  Are there signs to look for?

Okay.  I'm actually surprised how much bigger the head is now.  Here are some better photos, I managed to gentle roll him to a better spot for these photos.

I found this larvae yesterday, I was planning on moving it into a container that it can live in but when I checked it this morning it looks like it molted.  Is there a time frame that I should avoid handling this?  I assume since it is still all white it needs some time to harden.  (sorry for...

Is anyone able to confirm if this is stag beetle larvae or not?  Found this one under a log, there was a smaller one as well.  I have seen bess beetles in the same forest so I'm just trying to confirm it's not one of those.  It looks like it has the Y shaped anus with two big lobes, which I read...