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Can yellow mealworms be kept like normal darklings? I hate the smell of their enclosure with the oats in it, so I am wondering if they can be kept and bred in coconut fiber like normal darklings? Thanks in advance!

What is the difference between hardwood trees and cottonwood trees? And is a willow tree a hardwood tree?

Is it possible to crossbreed 2 different eleodes species, and get hybrid larva? One of my pupa just turned into a beetle that appears to be a mix of E.armatus and E.hispilabris. it is the size and shape of E.armatus but has lines on the wings like E.hispilabris. the female who produced this was...

one of my female darkling beetle's antenna is bent, it has been for about a week. is there something i can do? will it un-bend? and if not, will it affect her egglaying or lifespan? Thanks in advance!

Is there an isopod forum? I have looked but could not find anything. I was wondering if you guys know of anything. Thanks in advance!

I know this is a little late, but happy birthday jncxity! have a great one!

Hey I was wondering what is the beetle that's my avatar? I thought it was eleodes hispilabris but none of it's offspring have had the red strip Down the back, which is what a normal E. Hispilabris should look like. However some pictures of this species on bugguide have no strip down the back. Is...

I have had a colony of roly polys for about two years, and they have reproduced a fair bit. For a month or two I have had an extremely large die off in my colony, more than half of them have died. I have changed the substrate and have moved them to a new cage and nothing has changed. The seem to...

I recently caught around 7/8 ladybugs. I would like to keep them but there are no aphids around anymore. I was wondering if they can eat anything else, maybe sugar water? Also can I put them in my garage and have them hibernate in there? That way I can wait to feed them till aphids come out...

My eleodes hispilabris have a substrate that completely consists of coco fiber, and they lay lots of eggs. Will they lay even more if I give them some sand or dead leaves in their substrate? And is it normal that my darklings stop laying eggs when it's fall/winter? Thanks in advance!

i might be getting Dermestes maculates from roach crossing soon, and i would like to know how to breed them, how to rear them, and what foods should they eat. it says on his site that they eat dead roaches and and grain based roach food, dog food right? also what is a good setup for them? thanks...

so i have a problem. all of my harpalus species are becoming furry. once smooth beetles are now covered in a dirty, hairy, fungus? i do not know if it is fungal but it looks bad. it has not stopped my harpalus penslvanicus from laying lots of eggs, so is it serious? and if it is, can it be...

this is a topic to share care info and pics of unusual beetles, like ground beetles, sap beetles, flat bark beetles, fireflies, etc. basically the beetles no one commonly rears. here is my contribution as of now. dusky sap beetle ( carpophilus lugubris.) any container with a tight fitting top...

What's a good place to find rotten wood? I have wanted to keep rhino beetles and stag beetles for a while but I can not find rotten wood, or any wood for that matter. All the nature parks in my area are not forest-y, Meaning it's all desert, and new , small trees, no dead logs in sight! There...

I just caught a tiny wind scorpion and I would like to keep it. I assume it is a juvenile because of it's size ( it is like less than a centimeter long.) what should i feed it, what substrate should it have, moisture Etc. Thanks in advance.

Can you feed cat food to groud beetle larva instead of dead insects? I am feeding them darkling beetle larva but my darklings cannot catch up with all the larva I am feeding. If they cannot eat cat food does anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.

So I just cooked my darkling beetles substrate for two hours at 250 in the oven because it was infested with grain mites. It has been a few hours since I cooked it and it smells really bad. I cannot describe the smell. Will the smell go away, and if not is it okay to put my darkling beetles back...

Anyone here like minecraft? Just asking.

We have a kindle and I like Orin's books so does anybody know if they are on the kindle? Thanks in advance!

So a long time ago ( 3 or 4 months ago ) I caught a female earwig in a burrow with a bunch of eggs. I put her and the eggs in a small container full of coco fiber. She cleaned and sat on the eggs and they hatched etc. Etc. Now I have about 14 babies are adults. Aboult half of them are males...