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Arachnobaron
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- Oct 29, 2010
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Okay, so I found a pretty hefty Carabus Nemoralis while I was doing a bit of weeding.
I've always had a soft spot for these guys, so I set up a small critter keeper I had lying around and made a soil mix (1:1:1 Coco Fiber, Potting Soil, and soil from my garden), layed down some peat moss and put in a couple of small pieces of cork bark.
I feed it crickets, mealworms, and the occasional waxworm. So far it appears to favor the mealworms. I also spray the enclosure down a bit several times a week so that humidity doesn't drop too low.
Anyway, I was feeding it today, and I was looking for it under the peat moss, and I found what, from personal knowledge and a bit of research, appear to be beetle larvae.
They, like most Carabid larvae, are elongated, with a rather hard exoskeleton (compared to, say, the larvae of Dynastids) and a "centipede-like" body shape.
They look more or less like this:
They look quite similar to the above image, and are about half an inch long. Does anyone know anything about Carabids laying eggs in captivity? If they aren't my beetle's larvae, might they prey on the beetle?
I would have taken a picture, but my digital camera died some time ago...
I've always had a soft spot for these guys, so I set up a small critter keeper I had lying around and made a soil mix (1:1:1 Coco Fiber, Potting Soil, and soil from my garden), layed down some peat moss and put in a couple of small pieces of cork bark.
I feed it crickets, mealworms, and the occasional waxworm. So far it appears to favor the mealworms. I also spray the enclosure down a bit several times a week so that humidity doesn't drop too low.
Anyway, I was feeding it today, and I was looking for it under the peat moss, and I found what, from personal knowledge and a bit of research, appear to be beetle larvae.
They, like most Carabid larvae, are elongated, with a rather hard exoskeleton (compared to, say, the larvae of Dynastids) and a "centipede-like" body shape.
They look more or less like this:
They look quite similar to the above image, and are about half an inch long. Does anyone know anything about Carabids laying eggs in captivity? If they aren't my beetle's larvae, might they prey on the beetle?
I would have taken a picture, but my digital camera died some time ago...