The Ultimate Guide to Breeding Beetles, Coleoptera Laboratory Culture Methods

Wooh, finally got it! Fantastic book! Very comprehensive, easy to read and full of great info on even some of the least common species. Not to mention all the awesome color photos! A little depressing though personally, not because the book lacks anything (quite the opposite!), but after reading it seems that I'm a little more limited on the species I can rear with maple (my only readily accessible native hardwood)
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All in all this is a fantastic book (WELL worth the money) and I recommend it to any serious hobbyist or anyone with even a slight interest in beetles! Thank you Orin!
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Thanks Titanus! You can use maple but I've tried it as the primary food for a number of species and it always resulted in stunted and weak development.

 
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Wooh, finally got it! Fantastic book! Very comprehensive, easy to read and full of great info on even some of the least common species. Not to mention all the awesome color photos! A little depressing though personally, not because the book lacks anything (quite the opposite!), but after reading it seems that I'm a little more limited on the species I can rear with maple (my only readily accessible native hardwood)
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All in all this is a fantastic book (WELL worth the money) and I recommend it to any serious hobbyist or anyone with even a slight interest in beetles! Thank you Orin!
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I've head good things about the oak wood pellets made by Trager as being an acceptable form of wood compost, once well rotted. Downside: you have to buy a lot of it if you're buying online.

 
I really love this book. I just got the hardcover a bit ago and have been thumbing through it since, after devouring the entirety of its contents in an afternoon. If it wasn't for it, I wouldn't have felt like I was properly armed with the information I needed to keep and breed these creatures, and luckily it contained at least a little bit on all the species I currently want to work with, as well as bringing a few new ones to my attention for consideration. It is definetly a step in the right direction for the hobby you love so much and it sounds like, at least with me, it accomplished its goal.

I do feel like it could have been improved upon in some ways, but those ways are very few, and all completely organizational - something of a moot point, considering it is actually many books in one. Despite the repitition on some points between chapters and the differences in elaboration, there are few things I would change about what's there! Definetly a must have, with how sparse solid nuggets of information are.

 
I got my copy @ Amazon.com !

Yes of cours it is good, no it is supreme !

Greetings,

Mashku.

 
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Orin's book, The ultimate guide to breeding beetles is a great book in my opinion. I have Chinese books and they are all pretty cheap softcover's. Orin's book is well written and made of quality materials. Orin, thank's for not shipping more jobs to China just to make more profit off low quality materials and cheap Chinese labor, bad quality control etc... Nice to see people who actually care about their reputation and Country.

 
I have this book as well as his other book on invertebrate exhibiting and breeding both books are full of useful information. In terms of The Ultimate Guide to Breeding Beetles McMonigle goes over the most popular types of beetles in the hobby as well as both exotic and domestic species. However I will say that in terms of some of the additional breeding information on exotic species of beetle mainly rhinoceros and stag beetles the info. is condensed. I only say this because I own a beetle breeding book from Taiwan titled For the Love of Rhinoceros and Stag beetles 2nd edition and the information the two book set provides is similar but has some contrasts for certain species and more extensive information. However of the two books McMonigle's had a wider range of beetle species and provides information for a wider range of species overall as he has taken the time to first and foremost include information about native North American species which seems to be priority in most of the categories (Dung beetles, Rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles) over providing more extensive information about exotic species ( which is safe to say is because his sales market for this book is mainly in the US and thus providing knowledge but also abiding by not encouraging illegal ownership of exotic beetles in the US) Which he does give a warning to the readers in the epilogue of the book. I have yet to see if these methods are successful as I have yet to own any large beetles such as stag or rhinoceros beetles yet in order to test out and experiment with the methods of Orin Mcmonigle and compare them to that of Taiwan and thus also Japanese beetle breeding techniques.

 
This books saved my life and my beetles multiple times and now I am in the hunt to try and collect all of Orin’s books. 200/10 if you ask me, don’t get relictant because of the price tag, with the information provided it’s a buy that I will not be regretting anytime soon. 

 
This is my first Mcmonigle book, and I got it yesterday. It seems very thorough, but I noticed one thing I wanted to have clarified. In the book, it mentions fermenting wood, but it says that the wood must start as rotten wood. I was under the impression that fermentation was like artificially rotting the wood. I will admit that I haven't read it in its entirety as I have not had much time the past couple days. I did spend about an hour reviewing it, but I need to go back and read everything. If this topic is mentioned in a different part of the book, then please tell me. Otherwise, it covers just about every species I have been looking to breed, and I think it was worth the price. 

 
I got this book for Christmas. It's the best beetle breeding book I've ever read! It's perfectly tailored for the US hobbyist. It has new and updated info when compared to orins previous books, and his experience keeping beetles definitely shows. This book has general info on all types of beetles, both native and foreign species. 12/10!

 
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