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Hello –  Carabid beetles have begun to emerge where I live in Western NY state (USA). I'll be making numerous collecting excursions starting this week.  I've had the best luck keeping the following species, and would be happy to collect for sale or trade: ----------- Carabus sp. (probably...

I’ve collected what I take to be 1 male and 2 female Pole Borer Longhorn Beetles (Neandra brunnea). The females were found in the forest on the trunks of standing dead oak trees and the male came to a black light. It took a while to ID them because they look more like stags than Cerambycids! A...

I Hello - I'm wondering about interest people might have in aquatic beetles? We're having one of western NY state's wettest summers in a decade, and the diving beetles with pretty yellow markings are exploding everywhere. Fairly sure they're Acilius mediatus. The Internet says these are...

Hello, Beetle Brain Trust – Recently I've been attracting really cool looking Earth-Boring Scarabs to lights in the forest near my home (Western NY state). Are these interesting and easy enough to keep (for a beginner?)? They are close to an inch long and seem energetic when they're out and...

One of the most productive location for finding new beetles this year has been a bracket mushroom covered hemlock tree about a half mile hike from my house. I'm blown away by the diverse ecosystem of creatures assembled around fungal colonies. One of the biggest thrills has been discovering...

Hello - With the warmer weather in NY state, but without the undergrowth leafed out in the forest yet, I've been finding many small dung beetles that I'm pretty sure are Ataenius imbricatus, or something similar. I haven't collected them yet, but I'm curious about them and I'm wondering if...

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...