Scarites help?

[Stylopidae]

I just acquired a beetle similar to this one : Scarites.

I'm finding it to be a voracious feeder. It's taken almost a dozen mealworms in a week by itself.

Does anyone know if it's communal, or if it hunts something more convienient than mealworms (crickets or mealworms)? I'd like to give it some substrate so it can burrow, but I'm worried that it'll lose the mealworm in the substrate.

Or, that I won't get to see it hunt which is less important than it's possible starvation.

 

[Gigas]

pop a mound dirt in the corner, and just experimen with insects, the ground beetles arent normally fussy
and very unlikely that its communal but a male and a female should be no problem

 

[Stylopidae]

well...what was supposed to be pesticide free peat turned out to be the opposite. I blasted him with water from the faucet.

He's just kind of toddling around his now peat free container, looks like major neurological damage.

He still has his defense posture down for a few seconds, I'm going to see if he'll eat a mealworm.

Oh, well...they're somewhat plentiful around here. I doubt I won't be able to find another one.

 

[Scolopendra55]

I have kept lots of those before. Put them on about 1 1/2 inches of peat and feed them crickets (as crickets dont burrow). Their really fun to watch eat and their almost always active