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Has anybody tried artificially aging or fermenting freshly fallen oak leaves for flower beetle/millipede substrate? I'm wondering if they could be shredded and treated essentially like oak sawdust used in flake soil to create usable material within a few weeks. It's hard to find places that have...

A female Dynastes tityus showed up on my back porch last night! I'm hoping to find a male now that I know for sure they're living in my woods, but that might not happen. What's the likelihood that she would have already mated by this time of the summer in NC? Or would she have already laid any...

A Carolina dung beetle flew onto my porch last night! I was going to keep her but I couldn't find a lot of info on their care. I live next to a cow pasture, so I'm sure I could catch more now that I know they're in the area. I only found a couple of mentions when I searched the forum, so I'm...

I'm lucky enough to live in an area with plenty of wild grape and Virginia creeper available, but I'm curious if anyone has found other plants that grapevine beetles will eat. I have tons emerging right now from some pairs I bred a couple years ago, but before I offer any for sale I want to make...

Is there anyone that has kept both Lucanus elaphus and Lucanus (sometimes listed as Pseudolucanus) capreolus that could help me visualize the differences in their larvae? I know there is supposed to be something about a ratio involving the heads, but I haven't found a good explanation of how...