Phloeodes diabolicus and Ampedus cordifer

I found these two species together in oak woodland, and set up a place for them to (hopefully) breed.

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Well, there you go! They're a little out of focus, I know. I wish I had a macro lens.

 
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I just realised this now, but if you look at the second picture there's an insect crawling on the beetle's back! I wonder what it is, I'll have look for it when I get home.

 
For the Ampedus species, try a big lump of red-rot oak, this is the habitat for many "red" Ampedus species.

 
Yeah, I've given them various forms of fungi to experiment. They liked white mushrooms, and seem to be eating the fungi that I collected in their habitat.

 
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