ItalianTermiteMan
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Today i'll share with you some very old (and bad) pics of a male Megasoma actaeon (a magnificent south american rhino beetle) i kept some years ago. I had bought him along with a female as a relatively young larvae, the female died whitin a few days (maybe she didn't took well the shipping) and the male took around two years to become adult. Sadly with no female to attempt breeding, he just kinda sat in his enclosure for one month and an half before i gifted him to a local (and trusted) butterfly house to at least be seen by people for the last half of its life... yep, that's the main problem with these beetles: around three years from egg to adult and just three-three and an half months of adult life!
Anyway here's the pics:
The critter during his pupal stage. Sadly i don't have (or simply could not find) pics of him as a larvae, so we'll start from
here. I've always been fascinated by beetle pupae, and this was a chonk of a pupa!
An even more horrible pic of him just eclosed into an adult inside a substitute
pupal cell made from green foam. The white elytra they have in this stage
are beautiful.
And finally, tha adult in all its glory... and keep in mind they can of course get bigger than this! Reaaly too bad for their short adult lifespan though...
Anyway here's the pics:
The critter during his pupal stage. Sadly i don't have (or simply could not find) pics of him as a larvae, so we'll start from
here. I've always been fascinated by beetle pupae, and this was a chonk of a pupa!
An even more horrible pic of him just eclosed into an adult inside a substitute
pupal cell made from green foam. The white elytra they have in this stage
are beautiful.
And finally, tha adult in all its glory... and keep in mind they can of course get bigger than this! Reaaly too bad for their short adult lifespan though...
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