New Year beetle goal.

[LarvaHunter]

I was wondering what everyone's goals for 2014 is for collecting, and rearing?

My goal is to find Dynastes tiytus in Florida, and try to rear them.

 

[Hisserdude]

My goals are to successfully maintain my dusky sap beetle colony, obtain and rear a few click beetles, and rear some rhino beetles, stag beetles, or flower beetles.

 

[Oak]

succeeding in beetle breeding

 

[Dynastes]

My goal is to keep my cultures going, this will be year 19 for Dynastes tityus and I've got a few others between 14-17. You would think that with time they'd always get easier and easier but there are so many variables. Also I make foolish mistakes from being lazy and not heat treating certain substrates whose affects may not be fully felt till a year or two later, or am confounded by other issues I can't explain because the background information would take me far too long to plot out. Of course to watch them develop and the different horn structures, base colors, spotting patterns, and sizes each generation is the real reward while attempting to breed for a specific look is difficult since it's hard to say what it will be in future generations.

 

[pannaking22]

My goals are to begin building a collection of buprestids to try to determine diversity in Illinois, successfully rear out and start breeding my A. dichotoma and G. caseyi, and do some traveling around the Midwest to collect as much as I can.

 

[Greatwun]

To finally find D. tityus in FL!!! Lol

I'd also like to add another dried Megasoma vogti, or two, to my collection.

 

[Bill Myers]

To breed and rear Cottonwood borers. They may be considered pests by many, but I think they're gorgeous!

 

[Lucanus]

To breed US Dorcus! These guys were much harder to rear than I expected

 

[dieseldan]

Raising healthy Eastern Eyed Click Beetles.

 

[LarvaHunter]

Those are all great goals! I hope everyone is successful

 

[LarvaHunter]

I actually have another 2 more goals to add. To successfully raise and rear this small orange green metallic jewel beetle that I found 9 Larva of on the 3rd, and to get a P. truncatus colony going.

 

[Satanas]

To find and rear Prionus imbricornis

 

[Acro]

I would like to keep beetles again (after 15+ years of not keeping any) and try breeding something easy.

Also, I want to (finally, after about 3 years) write about my Japanese beetle store visit, for this website and for an Elytra and Antenna magazine article. It was such an amazing experience (Japan itself and the beetle store)!

 

[Johnboy]

i want to expand my stag collection to maybe ten species this year, and to breed c.caucasus