Greatwun Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Cool little beetles found in the Holopaw, FL area. I have never found this species before. All were found inside of rotting oak stumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Cool, are you gonna try breeding them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatwun Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I only got two for my dried collection but LarvaHunter is going to try and breed them. Apparently they can go from larva to pupa in as little as two weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Cool! I hope he is successfull. Yeah sap beetles also grow that fast, they would be easy to culture, if they weren't so good at escaping,lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatwun Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I would like to keep some but I don't have enough fungi around me to provide for them. Guess I'll just stick to fruit eating beetles for now lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarvaHunter Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I found out they eat reishi mushrooms, besides the other hardwood bracket fungi,etc... They don't like portabellas. Today when gathering some shelf mushroom, I found several of a different species fungus beetle that has similar colors but 1/3 the size, I still haven't been able to identify them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarvaHunter Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 They are eating the portabella mushroom caps, I guess they found it today, they hang out under the mushroom cap, it moves all around the place. They probably don't like light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizentrop Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Beautiful species. And very buprestid-like in appearance.I do not find this group of beetles to be difficult to breed (provided you have to proper food for them). When I kept fungus pleasing beetles I collected bracket mushrooms for food but found out that they will also take oyster mushrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Cool! Maybe you guys can all start breeding them, collect more species, and then start a website " fungus beetles R us " and sell them, lol. And then they will become as commonly kept as rhino beetles, stag beetles, etc. Ahhhhh... A man can dream right? But really, cool beetles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatwun Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Cool! Maybe you guys can all start breeding them, collect more species, and then start a website " fungus beetles R us " and sell them, lol. And then they will become as commonly kept as rhino beetles, stag beetles, etc. Ahhhhh... A man can dream right? But really, cool beetles! That would be nice. To have a big beetle store like Kingdom of Beetle Taiwan here in the US. Yes we can all dream, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Awesome find! Good luck getting them to breed! I'd buy a few if someone got a nice colony going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 Welp, collected a group of my own and I'm curious to what the care is like? Mainly humidity since I can easily find bracket fungus for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 Welp, collected a group of my own and I'm curious to what the care is like? Mainly humidity since I can easily find bracket fungus for them. Awesome, I've never kept these but I assume they would like a high humidity level, and probably would not need much ventilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWRay Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 How has it gone with your Megalodance, Panna? Anyone ever mess with Gibbifer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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