Phengodes arizonensis glow worm beetle

[REEFSPIDER]

When it was getting ready to molt, it curled up in a C and the last two segments were glowing on and off, bright two seconds, dark two seconds. Such a cool critter.

That is exactly how mine was for maybe a month, under the substrate in a C, i thought it was dying but it emerged and it looked a bit larger, and also light in areas as if it had molted i just wasn't certain it had, it sounds like it did for sure though.

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

I imagine that setting up a colony of bumblebee or rusty millipedes could be useful for maintaining these.

If this one molted it's obviously unlikely to lay any fertile eggs, but on another forum I saw someone who caught a Phengodes female and had it lay eggs manage to feed the babies (which are not cannibalistic) with millipedes much larger than themselves, but they starved quickly when he ran out of millipedes.

 

[Myrmeleon]

It has refused again. Sigh. Will try again in the future.

For a second I thought that was a carrot in there and you were hoping it would grow!
Anyway, really nice critter! Have you caught it glowing yet?

 

[REEFSPIDER]

For a second I thought that was a carrot in there and you were hoping it would grow!
Anyway, really nice critter! Have you caught it glowing yet?

I have not