Inle Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I finally found the Elodes goryi I have been seeking! I decided today would be the day so the dog and I struck out on the park trails only to find squished goryi after squished goryi when finally we came across a living, unsquished, one! Yay! On our triumphant return we found another live goryi. Now I have two. =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreidsma Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Congrats! Maybe it will happen to be a breeding pair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 I hope so. The dog and I will go look again tomorrow and hopefully we will find some more. I'll go earlier and hopefully find less squished ones and more live ones. I think goryi might be my first singleton beetle tank since they are free and I can find them on the ground. Can't wait to get a few more. I'm watching these two right now crawl around a small critter keeper. They act pretty much like all the Eleodes but they have longer back legs and the first thing they did when I put them into the keeper is bury themselves. The only other Darkling I have that buries itself is the Eleodes osculans (wooly darklings). They have not touched the potatoes I gave them. I wonder if their care is different form the the ones found in the deserts since Austin isn't a desert. I found them crawling on the side walk of a bike trail in a wooded area. I found almost all the squished ones in the same type of area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreidsma Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Hope you can find some more Maybe they are laying eggs? I have never kept the woolies. But I am guessing they should eat fruit and dry foods like other Eleodes. Maybe try some dog/cat food or fish food, or even oats if you have some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 I gave them some potatoes which the other beetles go nuts for but I'll give them a bit of dog food too. Good idea! I keep forgetting that darklings eat dog food. Now that I know where they have been hiding I don't think it will be a problem to find more. There were enough squished ones from bikes and runners on the trails that I don't think I will have any problems getting a tank full of them and maybe a colony if they breed and pupate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreidsma Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Remember you good friend here if you get too many or they have more babies than you know what to do with (wink wink, hint hint) The cool thing with darklings is it seems they will eat anything. lol. Even the larva eat dry foods, like oats, cricket food, dog/cat food, hermit crab food, and they love carrot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 If I catch some more or they start having babies that live I will be all up for trades. You have some Eleodes obscurus which I don't have yet, if I remember correctly. Which is why I choose the Pokemon avatar, the bug hobby is very simular to the collecting and trading of Pokemon that I remember as a child. My next target is Eleodes tricostata which has also been found within a mile of my house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreidsma Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 I have some obscurus larva. No beetles of them yet though. Once they start having babies we can talk a trade though. I also have some spinipes, but they are also larva. The tricostata look pretty cool Hope you can find some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 I'm just starting with the drakilings as well. No babies yet from anything I have. We will keep in contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreidsma Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Sounds like a plan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardshell Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 maybe ur dog would sniff out some more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 The dog failed me Monday and today I didn't get to go bug hunting. I'm trying again tomorrow morning! Oh, spinipes! I read that wrong before. Cool. I wanted to get some of those from Bugsincyberspace but I haven't done it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcheath Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Congratulations! The males are thinner than the females. The picture looks like a female. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Thank you! I was thinking these were both females. I'm hoping to get a good group together and seeing what happens. Edit: There must be something in the water here today both the Eleodes subnitens females and the Eleodes osculan female are laying eggs this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcheath Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Thank you! I was thinking these were both females. I'm hoping to get a good group together and seeing what happens. Edit: There must be something in the water here today both the Eleodes subnitens females and the Eleodes osculan female are laying eggs this morning! I have a couple of extra male goryi I would trade for a couple of females, if you find an abundance of them and no males, or any other Eleodes sp. I am in Georgetown a couple of times a week usually so swapping beetles would not be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I found another, what I think are, two females today on my morning run. I'm going to give it a few more days and see what I find now that I have found where these little beetles have been hiding! I'll keep in touch, thank you for the offer as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inle Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 The 4 I found last week are all males. I found a female this weekend and she is almost double the size of the males. She is really big around and just bigger in general. She is driving the males nuts. I will try to get a picture to show the size difference later. The beetles were not cooperating with me today with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcheath Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 The 4 I found last week are all males. I found a female this weekend and she is almost double the size of the males. She is really big around and just bigger in general. She is driving the males nuts. I will try to get a picture to show the size difference later. The beetles were not cooperating with me today with that. Inow have a total of 4.3, and a tub full of worms from them. If anyone wants some beetle whenever they mature, or some worms for that matter, let me know and we can work something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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