Found more!!!!!

I wonder how common this is in the wild. I have found nests with as much as 19 larvae or as little as 7.

 
2 adult females in the same nest! Good stuff.

So maybe there is supposed to be more than one female sometimes?

 
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Greatwun said:
I wonder how common this is in the wild. I have found nests with as much as 19 larvae or as little as 7.
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It's probably very common.

It appears that females will stay with larvae and hibernate during this time to prevent eating all of her offsprings but when the weather warms up, females start to break out of dormancy and eat some of their offsprings.

 
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LarvaHunter said:
2 adult females in the same nest! Good stuff.

So maybe there is supposed to be more than one female sometimes?
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Ah...I forgot to clarify that the two females were collected from different trees.

One was collected in what appeared to be an ash tree. I found 15 larvae along with her.

The other one was in rotten pine tree. I found 2 larvae with her.

 
pics of the females I caught

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Lucanus said:
Indeed! I'm beginning to get tired of finding truncatus instead of tityus. lol
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I know the feeling lol.

What is the measurement of the big girl? I have three adult females but one looks bigger than the other two. I haven't measured them yet.

 
That is a big girl! Mine were moving around but measurements I got of the three females were 36mm, 37mm, and 40mm.

 
My larvae range between 9.5-15 grams. Most between 11.5-14 grams. I tried to sex the larvae and if I did it correctly I noticed that usually the females weigh more than the males. I have a group from one tree and most of the females are around 13 grams or more, where as most of the males are around 11-12 grams. I also have some dried specimens and found the pronotum of the females are wider across than the males. I will post my data in the future near pupation.

 
Greatwun said:
My larvae range between 9.5-15 grams. Most between 11.5-14 grams. I tried to sex the larvae and if I did it correctly I noticed that usually the females weigh more than the males. I have a group from one tree and most of the females are around 13 grams or more, where as most of the males are around 11-12 grams. I also have some dried specimens and found the pronotum of the females are wider across than the males. I will post my data in the future near pupation.
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That's an interesting observation
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It might be handy when it comes to sexing them
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