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Looking for Manticora redux or other manticora species.

Looking for larvae or beetles

I want to know what brands are good to get.

I know this has been asked before many times, yet In all the posts about doing it no one gives proper instructions, Ackro asked how you dry the wood after expanding. I also want to know why I can't add flour and yeast after its wet if I mix it well. Has anyone mixed in the yeast and flour while...

Which are the best brands of compost to use? I use Earthgro cow manure and organic compost. It seems to have a bunch of sand but it works, I just want to know a better brand or type of compost.

Looking to buy lots of Isopods.Tell me the species. Even common roly polys are ok.

This is a great handbook for those interested in keeping isopods.

This is a dead Phileurus truncatus that died and dried out. A fungus grew from within and grew outwards. Could this fungus live within this larva until adulthood, and spread the fungus elsewhere when it flies to other trees?

Tonight I set up my uv light with a white sheet, I am curious if I can get any good species this early in May Last year I started in mid June so this will be an interesting experiment. Its cold out tonight (for me) so I don't know how good it will be, the moon is a waxing crescent now. I...

I was wondering how much time people spend making substrate, feeding etc...? It takes me hours but I got a lot of beetles/larvae. I've been spending hours baking wood, manure , leaves. I'm going to set up over 14 breeding bins, it is using so much wood and time. The time is mostly just baking...

I want to know how the best way to breed superworms, Zophobias morio. I want to start with 2 thousand. I have been keeping 200 in oat like mealworms I throw in a small piece of carrot or lettuce like they say and show on the net, the oats turned completely green with mold twice , I figure too...

Ryan, How do I ask you a question, when I go to your profile, I don't see the option (send me a message) like everyone else.

I found a longhorn beetle, that I haven't seen before in a lake inside an aquatic plant flower. The plant was Cow Lily (Nuphar advena). I've read these other beetle larvae live in them, but it did not say longhorns do. I wonder how many beetles live in these aquatic flowers now.

Two of my regal jumping spiders laid egg sacs this month, does anyone here know how long I have till these things hatch? Also can I keep them all together in a big tank?

This book by Stephen Marshall is a great book for anyone who collects beetles and other insects looking to identify species. Full color pictures throughout and information on the species and lots of other information. It is by far the best book I have found on identifying insects, its a good...

This book by Jonathan Lai is a great nonfiction book about his long journey to do two amazing things, growing world record beetles and discovering the rarest beetle in the world! A great book written by a great guy. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good book, beetles, and awe...

I usually use a low power bulb to dry big specimens fast, but I am going to try my food dehydrator. Does anyone see any problem with this method (I plan on keeping it at 105F)? I think the faster the specimen is dried the better. I just hope their joints don't become too brittle.

I was wondering if anyone got any injuries in the past while hunting for larvae/beetles? I hurt my knee, cut my finger open, and got poison ivy. I figured others must have got injured somehow.

I noticed my stag L3 was about to pupate and was still a grub waiting to pupate on his back, less than 12 hours later and I am looking at this thing that is 2x as big and totally different. Is it their juvenile growth hormone or what? I don't understand how it can grow so fast, almost like it...

I was wondering if anyone has heard of training dogs to smell for beetles?