Beetle thread

>>2312851
I love beetles but sadly I've never owned any

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The female of the pair (dorcus alcides). She's real cute but I'm scared to lose her.

>>2312854
They can be hard to get a hold of in the States (and expensive). I'm living in Japan right now, and you can pop down to any local store and get jelly/supplies. It's crazy

I'd love to own a giant beetle, I once saw a beetle larva at my local pet store last year or maybe the year before and never again since.

It's weird, I cannot stand tiny beetles, the gross me out but I love giant ones...

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>>2312868
I'm the same way, honestly. Beetles in general are okay, but any tiny bugs (especially in my house) can fuck right off.

Here's my rainbow stag pair! These guys are really chill.

>>2312896
gorgeous.
Animal crossing has always made me want pets of these, but I don't have the funds, and I don't like how they don't live very long. I wish smaller, domesticated animals lived longer.

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Nice. I used to have a few species as a kid, then I got a bit bored over the years and sold off my grubs (still have a lot of the adults pinned up in storage though). Very fun little hobby while it lasted, I had a nice time revisiting it when I went to Japan last year too.
>>2312907
Yeah Animal Crossing made me obsessed with them back in the day too. The adults may live awfully short lives, but once they're gone you can preserve and present them for eternity.

>>2312923
Woah, he's awesome! What species is he?

I've only had three of my beetles die so far (I've had/have a total of nine in total, two alive in the US with a friend, and I have four at my Japan house). I haven't been able to pin them, though... I got very attached to them individually as pets, so I keep them in nice little wooden boxes with their names.

Will post a few pictures of the rhino beetles I had this summer. Poor guys have such short lifespans.

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This is Tank, a wild-caught Atlas beetle I bought in Tokyo. Even if he couldn't bite me, god, he was an angry bug. He'd swing those beefy legs at you and tear up your skin.

I'm in a traditionalJapanese house, so the walls are a papery material he could climb, so that was cool. I'd give him free reign when I was home.

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This is Mochi, a Japanese rhino beetle, only ~$3 because I bought him at the end of his lifespan (they live in summer only).

He had a lot of personality, I'll definitely get more of these.

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Tank and Mochi together. Tank was a monster.

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>>2312851
I had a great obsession with beetles when I was a little girl. Best beetle coming trough.

>>2312937
>30 days of summer

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I've kept Prosopocoilus occipitalis and Odontolabis lacordaire. Haven't bred either of them though, the larval stages are just such a huge turnoff for me. I usually just stick to mantids and phasmids.

I once saw a shop offer tiger beetles and I regret not ordering them, apparently they can live several years and their larvae have a similar predatory lifestyle.

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>>2312935
Prosopocoilus giraffa (forgotten which subspecies). He even flew around a couple of times, sounded like a full-blown helicopter.
It's worth pinning them, it lets you keep them in pristine condition as long as you like (all of mine have lasted 8+ years and are showing no signs of going downhill).

I'm currently breeding Xylotrupes sumatrensis, Oryctes owariensis and various african flower beetles (Pachnoda, Eudicella); will post some pics later.

>>2312907
A tarantula will last you up to thirty years

>>2312851
I like beetles. How high maintenance are they? Do they feel?

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>>2312854

If you want a medium sized bunch of beetles for cheap, just go to any pet store and buy a bin of 25 superworms. Keep them in plastic bin with wheat bran for substrate and some vegetables as water source until they get to full size. Once full sized worms, separate each in small plastic containers (no substrate). They will moult to pupa stage. Put pupae in your final enclosure to house beetles. Wait a week or two. Now you've got big beetles for cheap.

>>2313099
*Just to clarify. Morio worms will not moult to pupa stage when in the same bin as other worms. When you separate they have to each have their own container.

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>>2313097
They're extremely low maintenance, more than a hamster or lizard. After initial setup (making sure the cafe has little air flow so its humid), all you need to do is change their jelly every other day or so.

No heating lamps either.

>>2312851
>lady with a love
hHEY GUYS I HAVE A VAGINA XDDDDDD LOOOK AT ME!!!!!! HAHAHAH MY VAGINA11111

I've loved beetles and bugs for a long time, I have a bunch of roaches, but I've been planning on getting some beetle larvae since I like them too.

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Here's my late Prosopocoilus fabricei takakuwai (Taku), born with a gimp leg and another one busted in transit. Never let it stop him from trying to bite the shit out of me, though. The breeder of these was very generous, gave me a free beetle for the damage to this guy.

>>2313293
Woah there, lol. Back in My Day, /an/ had as many girls as /co/. Has it changed?

>>2313309
I've never held a hissing cockroach, but I always look at them at the store. Their little heads unnerve me, but I'd like to get over that. Are they friendly? Do they have individual personalities?

>>2313453
>Back in My Day

I'm not sure when tho, I've been here for almost three years and the femanons I remember are llamaanon, the owner of kot blini, and you from another beetle thread.

>>2312949
Mein neger. I saw it a couple of times where I live, shame they are almost endangered.

>>2313453

It doesn't matter how many girls there are on the board, there's no reason to go around announcing your gender every time you make a new thread.

>>2313743
stop being melodramatic, I for one are always happy to see fellow girls being interested in insects

I really want to get a beetle...

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>>2313453
they're certainly not mean, but yeah I'd say they have different personalities. I have a large female who gets very grumpy when picked up and hisses a lot, but I also have a little male who doesn't mind at all and likes to just sit on my hand. I think they're really cute I don't know why people are so freaked out by them lol. pic related is the male

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I forgot what this thing's called, but it's not native to my area or anywhere hundreds of miles in any direction, so I have no idea how it got here last summer. Ignore the gray tree frog.

>>2313847
grapvine beetle. native to your area and all the other areas within a few hundred miles of you.

>>2313849
*grapEvine

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oh, and I forgot to call you a dumb bitch for deciding a common beetle was from deepest africa or whatever.

>>2313849
Naturalized maybe, certainly not native to my state.

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If you aren't going to show us your tits covered in bugs then why did you feel it necessary to identify yourself as female at all.

>>2313843
I kept them for years but time got to them. I may get more if I'll be in this sector much longer.

>>2313121
What is the jelly?

Hey guys! Mycologist checking in here.
I know that many beetles require fungus-ridden wood to lay their eggs in and to consume in the larval stage. Is there a market for these sawdust/woodchips/logs? I end up producing tons and tons of it.

>>2312863
I can easily find beetle grubs in my backyard. I wonder if I could raise them? Not sure what the species is from just the grub though

>>2313895
Literally all you have to do to produce lichen on bark is leave it outside in the rain for a week.

There's probably not a market for it unless you can find a way to repackage lichen and sell it to hipsters as the newest fad sensation.

>>2312896
I live in georgia (the US state) and I've seen similar looking rainbow beetles before during the summer. I think they were smaller and they liked to be around flowers. My favorite part was the way they vibrated when they flew. It felt nice to hold them when they did that. Do you know what they could be?

>>2314139
I looked up some stuff and am thinking dogbane beetle maybe

>>2313121
lizards are not low maintenance at all unless you want them to only live for a couple years.

>>2312907
>I wish smaller, domesticated animals lived longer.
A well cared for carpenter ant queen can live 20 years or more, if you just have to have an invertebrate.

>>2313097
>Do they feel?
This is a very good question that's almost impossible to answer even for things with mammal brains, much less an insect.

>>2313453
>Woah there, lol. Back in My Day, /an/ had as many girls as /co/. Has it changed?
Yeah /co/ has no girls anymore

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>>2313092

Here one of my Oryctes owariensis pupae in an artificial pupal cell. Had to remove it from it's original pupating chamber after some mites managed to get inside.

>>2314544
>naked pupae
It was asking for it.

>>2314275
I have a machine that will finally look inside them

>>2314648
Tell me more.

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>>2314544
Some Xylotrupes sumatrensis grubs; one of the easiest dynastid species to rear. Got 25 grubs from a female in rather shallow substrate; 8" deep substrate is recommended for laying eggs but mine was around 6".

Paranormal/x/

>>2314107
Lichen? They eat mycelium colonized wood.

Girls are fucking stupid

>>2315347
no girls allowed on 4chan!!!!!

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>>2314107
Lichen takes fucking ages to grow mate, decades and centuries in some cases. Surely you mean something else?

>>2316290
Moss? Fungi?

>>2312907
a lot of reptiles longer than cats and dogs with proper care. especially snakes. and most snakes are actually relatively small

>>2316715
well, turtles are the real long-lived ones, but I didn't mention it because I didn't think of them as small for some reason

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Not realted at all but didn't see a better thread.

The fuck is this thing? Woke up with it just sitting on my pillow. Can't figure it out, I k ow nothing about bugs but I'm scared there might be more nearby.

>>2316981
Lepisma saccharina

>>2316981
Looks like a springtail. They don't hurt anything, but they jump better than a Mexican evading border patrol agents.

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>>2316990
not even close. Dont know the english translation. but it might be just silver-fish

where can i buy some beetle buddies in the US? im assuming i should wait until the weather breaks

>>2317958
rakuten

>>2318017
Does rakuten get through customs easy I wouldn't want them being found out and terminated and being slapped with a fee

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>>2312851
what are these? some kind of darkling beetle? I'm in georgia, US

>>2318685
Those are Bess Beetles.

>>2319339
thanks. they had really interesting behavior. they seemed pretty curious and smart and had different personalities

>>2319404
aww I looked up information about them and it seems like I can't just raise the grubs because they can't eat on their own. I would need to take in a colony

>>2313866
/thread
What a waste this thread has been. I was hoping the whore would at least show some bugs on her tits or something creative.

>>2312936

I wouldn't let anything that looks like it has fishhooks for legs anywhere near my hand.

>>2319614
that's because you're a pussy