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[AntHUB]

Anyone else do beetles?

 

Phalacrognathus muelleri

[ponerinecat]

I wish. All my native beets are boring, but if I manage to find rugose stag beetles then heck yes.

[Enderz]

Dermy does beetles; he's much better than you.

[AntHUB]

I wish. All my native beets are boring, but if I manage to find rugose stag beetles then heck yes.

 

That all depends on how you look at it. I love my exotics, but I have much more fascination with the local beetles in my state. It's not necessarily the beetles that are the best part of the hobby. in my opinion its the larvae. Also california has coconut beetles which are pretty big.

[ponerinecat]

 

I wish. All my native beets are boring, but if I manage to find rugose stag beetles then heck yes.

 

That all depends on how you look at it. I love my exotics, but I have much more fascination with the local beetles in my state. It's not necessarily the beetles that are the best part of the hobby. in my opinion its the larvae. Also california has coconut beetles which are pretty big.

 

True. Never seen them though.

[AntHUB]

ever seen a ten lined june beetle?

[gcsnelling]

Keep in mind that most living  exotic beetles are illegal to keep in the U.S.

[BugFinder]

AntHub, what are the chances I could eat a dead/preserved specimen of one of those beetles from you?
I meant get, on the eat.... please excuse the typo.

[RushmoreAnts]

I've kept army beetles in the past. And those who have bred meal worms and/or super worms could be considered 'beetle keepers'.

[kgollehon]

I keep beetles myself, currently rearing a Chrysina woodii! It's somewhere towards the end of its L2 at the moment. Want to eventually get my hands on a Giant Stag Beetle or some Dynastes tityus. 

[ponerinecat]

closest thing I've found are filimbrate rain beetles. Cool, but unraisable.

[AntHUB]

AntHub, what are the chances I could eat a dead/preserved specimen of one of those beetles from you?
I meant get, on the eat.... please excuse the typo.

Email me, at Jk@uglyorangetruck.com, I have one of my previous pair right now.

[ponerinecat]