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Hello! These are clustered under a rotting pine log in my front yard, Allegany County, NY (USA). Are they pupating dermestid beetles? Thanks for any help :-)

Hello! Mostly I keep millipedes but I also enjoy keeping Gymnetis caseyi because they're so easy and pretty. I recently discovered about 30 larvae and pupal cells of a large scarab in a rotted tree in my yard. Not knowing how to ID the larvae, I set each larva up in its own enclosure filled with...

I'm over the moon with this species. I know it's not uncommon to keep, but it's new to me and I'm having a great time watching my 6 adapt to life in a large mixed-species communal enclosure. As a nature photographer I also find them eerily beautiful and cool-looking (sorry about the typo on the...

Hello - I understand that a lot of people like myself (total newbies to keeping beetles) dump larvae photos here, but I promise to use this as an opportunity to learn diagnostics! I brought a piece of rotting wood into my home this winter to use as a landscaping feature in a desert Tenebrionid...