Treat them just like any other large Dynastid - see http://www.naturalworlds.org/scarabaeidae/manual/Scarabaeidae_breeding_1.htm for an excellent guide to getting started with all of the large beetles.arizona said:
that is honestly one of the most disturbing and awesome things i have ever seen on AB. you could easily make some bucks selling picks to National Enquirer and telling them they hatched out of pods that came out of your neighbor's butt after aliens visitedMat said:
Yes - those are the spiracles through which air enters the trachea inside the body. Despite being buried fairly deep underground they do need air, it is possible to suffocate things like this if the container they are kept in is too airtight.darkpredator said:
I've got some on the go at the moment. I bought 10 smallish L2 Dynastes hercules lychi (DHL) larvae at the Oct 2004 AES show at Kempton Park in the UK. They fitted comfortably into a 35mm film container at that point so they were probably about 6-8 weeks old . I saw the first signs of the larvae pupating in April this year and found the first beetle in June.Gigus said:
They don't seem to appear very often at the AES show, the guy I got mine from had some Dynastes hercules lychi and D.neptunus larvae from beetles he had imported from Taiwan. He was selling them for £10 each at small L2 but I did a part exchange for some Xylotrupes larvae I had and got them for a fiver each. I only spotted him towards the end of the show and bought the 10 DHL larvae he had left, though I really should have bought some of the Dynastes neptunus too. I've seen wild caught adult pairs offered for sale a few years ago at about £80 per pair, silly prices and I'm wary of buying wild caught adults, you never know how long they will live for when you get them home.Gigus said: