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Oryctes boas male... the female has a horn but not as big.

I'm not sure that I would call a glass globe with a piece of algae and a shrimp in it an ecosystem... maybe a rather bleak one but, I prefer to call it an expensive life support system for a shrimp.

I have several "composts" in my basement... Red wigglers...They are in with the millipedes and snails. They brake down everything... it sucks if they get in with your beetles though. You can also buy worm castings.

There are many ways to build a pupal chamber if one is damaged or destroyed by earthworms... I have built these in many sizes using this method. I use DRY earthworm castings mixed with some groggy clay as a binder at about a 6/1 ratio then add some water until the whole mess is just...

Randolph, The site you sudgested would be great... if i could read Japanese. ;)

Protein rich foods like cat kibbles seem to go uneaten buy my Dynastids... Unless their substrate is all but gone. even one piece of kibble always causes a proliferance of mites. With my Cetonids larvae they will eat handfuls and the drier substrate makes it hard for mites to survive. I think i...

The biggest one in the picture was 89 mm (9cm) Not a monster by any stretch but still bigger than a junebug. I have heard it is normal to find varying sizes within a wild population and majority will be of a medial size. I have to say I'm not exactly sure what you mean about size if people don't...

And C. atlas. The larvae are very aggressive! In the second to last picture you can see pupal cells I have opened to view the development. the imagos are resting after their transformation.... these are NOT artificial cells though. I wish could find some better pics... Sorry. In the last...

I would never open a pupal cell of any Centoniinae or any scarab that builds a complete pupal cell... Big Dynastinae is no problem as they build an incomplete cell... I will open a cell, creat a new one and post the pics in a new thread. Sorry i am having some trouble finding my pictures...

Yes that can happen... I open and remove some of them from cells now and again. I have never had a problem but I know how to build artificial pupal chambers and I disturb those I leave in the cells as little as possible. (The one in the picture has a removable wooden "lid" that I put back on...

NEVER!!! Get some beetles yourself and we can trade... i have better stuff than these. my C atlas larvae are doing great and i should have close to 100 larvae next generation... So get something cool to trade or they will all go to Japan again! Ha!

Male T. dichotomus in pupal cell... and an early female.

This beetle looks familiar to me..... Hmmm......

S. rugosum... That is exactly what it is. I live in B.C. also and have found many of these little stags in Alder logs with 2 + years of decay.

I had a 5.5' long, male V. albigularis who was trained very well... if you consider dropping his threat display for all out running, mouth open assaults trained. I gave him a bath twice a week as a water dish big enough for him to soak in was no option... he never let up on trying to eat me but...

I found several of those in Chiang mai province a couple years back... maybe not the same thing but close. They were all encountered in burrows under logs and most had their wings chewed off like the one in your picture.

It's in the genus Toxorhynchites i believe... they get big... bigger than that... the larvae feed on other Mosquito larvae.

What type of cactus is that in your enclosure? I wanted to put some succulents in mine but I was worried the light wouldn't be intense enough.

ten gallon.

Botswana touches South Africa so that is probably the same species as you are describing... I think they are a common species as the dealer had hundreds of them and they cost about $6 Cdn each. I just like that they are so nicely colored and can be kept together. I used to have a friend who...