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Has anyone bred E. tricostata? Here in Texas there is a lot of Eleodes diversity, and I am specifically attempting to breed E. tricostata. I am keeping the adults in an enclosure with a 60% rotten wood and 40% compost/soil substrate with large pieces of rotten wood. Has anyone had success with...

Is everything still the same regarding the legality of exotic beetles in the U.S.? Will this change in the future? I can’t really sell or trade anything exotic due to these regulations, so I was wondering if anything has changed.

I found these as L1s on a trip to Mississippi a year ago, and am hoping to breed them since their gene pool isn’t as reduced as other captive specimens.

    Is anybody else keeping Tetracha carolina? If so, I can’t seem to find much information on breeding them and want to breed my adults. I think Cicindelids should be more common in the hobby. -Thank you!

Hello, I have not kept Goliathus in the past, as I have heard they are a more advanced species to keep. Nevertheless, I have kept Cotinis nitida for a few generations and successfully raised them through pupation. How difficult is Goliathus, in comparison to Cotinis? Thank you!

 IMG_6860.HEIC A Chrysina psittacina successfully emerged! The larva was kept in sandy substrate nearing late L3. The specimen was collected around L2 in the Sierra Madre mountain near Monterrey! The cell was accidentally opened and I took the opportunity to photograph the pupa, then placed it...

Hello, I have always wondered where D. hyllus occurs. There is a supposed population near Monterrey, Mexico in the higher altitudes, but I’ve searched for them thoroughly and have never had any luck. I have looked in the mountains, including the Sierra Madre and found inverts like Chrysina...

I purchased Dynastes hercules hercules last year, and one of the larvae is shrinking and losing weight. I used my own homemade flake soil, but the others are doing fine on that same substrate. All of them are already L3. Something strange I noticed was that the larvae kept in smaller containers...

Hello, I was interested to see if anybody is breeding Dorcus parallelopipedus in the U.S. They are supposedly very easy to breed, but I do not know of anybody who has them.

Hello, several months ago I aquired a Dorcus titanus palawanicus pair from Gallegos Zoological Supply. I was stressed out because I had heard stories about the male killing the female. They lived well together for about 2 months until I discovered the female dead, her body split apart. The male...

Hello, my name is Eduardo and I am 12 years old. I know I’m young, but I started my insect collection at the age of 4 and “bugs” are basically my life. Over the years, I have gained an obsession for inverts, and beetles especially fascinate me. I started breeding beetles at the age of 7, where I...