Unusual insects

[roach dude]

i thought thouse last ones looked like deaths head cockroaches .but there not...

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ok. More to go.
Common Central European species of carabid beetles:
Carabus auronitens and Carabus cancellatus.

 

[Steven]

I love those carabid beetles :}
great pictures !!! :clap:
Only our local groundbeetles are protected,...
i don't know about Poland ? :?


I only have Teflus and Mantichora right now,... hoping to get Megacephala spec. soon :drool:

 

[Dark Raptor]

Yes. In Poland genus Carabus and Calosoma are also under protection (but some species are very common and they are probably protected only because their similarity to some rarer species).
These beetles were reared from the wood that was taken during my research (they spend winter in rotten wood).

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ok. So if you like very rare species (especially in Western Europe) look at them (this specimens were also captured during my fieldworks).

Osmoderma eremita:

Protaetia lugubris:

You can find more photos at my webpage:
www.owadyinietylko.prv.pl
but this site is in Polish, sorry. If you know insects latin names, it will be much easier to find them.

 

[MrMatt]

Yes, they are extremely rare, but big beasts, 2"! Other members of the genus are mor common. Not easy to rear either, the genus as a whole do poorly at temps above 70 f.

Dawn-

Here's a couple more pics of the adults:

Wade

Wade,

Are you sure those are Nicrophorus americanus? They don't look like them to me. They look more like Silpha americana. Not that I'm an expert by any means. They are still very nice looking insects. Good luck with breeding. Where do you collect them?

Matt

EDIT... Sorry I noticed in your original post they are Necrophila americana thats what I get for reading carefully :8o .

 

[thedreadedone]

ive been trying to get antlions in the UK, but have had no luck
any ideas?

 

[Dark Raptor]

Try in coniferous forests. They prefer dry and warm sandy roads, clearings etc. This is their favourite habitat in Poland.

 

[thedreadedone]

im pretty sure there are some on Jersey - channel islands UK (where I used to live), but i could never find them
found bloody-nosed beetles though!

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ok. 3 more (If you like them).

Family Lucanidae:
Dorcus parallelipipedus (1 male and 2 females - easy to recognize), very rare, in Polish Red Data Book of Animals (I relesed them after taking that photo).

Sinodendron cylindricum (male and female - and little fly between them ) not so rare:

Family Cerambycidae:
Leptura rubra - female, very common

I reared these species from wood collected during my fieldworks.

 

[looseyfur]

what about dermestid (spelling!) beatles? dont they primarily act the same way in regards to cleaning a corpse to its bones... is it true or myth that they in fact are used by musems for cleaning tissue from bones, I seem to remember ( though I dont remember much ) in highschool that a earth science unit focused on them and other insects who bio-degrade road kill and the like.

and where the heck is Orin (mantidassassins) all my email to him gets bounced back! :?
over and out-
loosey to the fur.

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

Angelfire e-mail shut down May 2004. I just updated my arachnoboard info with my new e-mail so it should work now.

Dermestids are tiny little bugs. They used to be used for bone cleaning though I don't know if they're still used for that or if anything 'modern' has replaced them. I use orange heads when I need to clean something (generally just dumping still living mismolts which isn't the same) since they look neat and are 1,000 times the size of a dermestid. The Cincinnatti Zoo in Ohio has a dermestid display (complete with bones) in it's INSECT WORLD building.

 

[WYSIWYG]

That's a great idea, I may try something like that if I ever try to rear them, as I come accross them every now and then. The parental care aspect would be heartwarming if it didn't involve rolling up a rotten mouse and burrying it!

I can certainly understand why someone in an apartment wouldn't want them! In my basement, it's only one more smell among many.

Wade

Wade, are you trying to sell you have a particularly "smelly" house?

Wysi

 

[WYSIWYG]

That metallic green one with the red legs is just SOOOOOO cool!!!! Nice pix! Same to you, Wade. Now that I've seen the pix, I can see QUITE a difference between a roach and one of your "smelly" beetles!

Wysi

 

[Dark Raptor]

what about dermestid (spelling!) beatles? dont they primarily act the same way in regards to cleaning a corpse to its bones... is it true or myth that they in fact are used by musems for cleaning tissue from bones, I seem to remember ( though I dont remember much ) in highschool that a earth science unit focused on them and other insects who bio-degrade road kill and the like.

Yes, dermestid beetles are used im museums to clean skeletons. As I know, the most popular is genus Dermestes (like Dermestes vulpinus, D. carnivorus, D. murinus). Another genus - Anthrenus, is known as the worse "destroyer" in museums - in. egz. Anthrenus museorum.

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ok. 3 more (I've got some more ).

Here is my favourite cricket - Gryllus campestris. I keep them since 1988!

Male

Female

And one Hymenoptera species, that lives in larch wood - Urocerus gigas, male.

 

[Jakob]

Not sure what this is, but it's neat!

Later,

Jake

 

[Jakob]

More...

Later,

Jake

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ha Great pics! :clap:
This first beetle belongs, I think, to subfamiliy Trichinae (Scarabaeidae) it looks like european Osmoderma eremita.

I don't know the rest (I don't work on Hemiptera), except for hornet. I had the same hive on window... it is nice to look how they work and feed their larvae.

 

[Wade]

Ha Great pics! :clap:
This first beetle belongs, I think, to subfamiliy Trichinae (Scarabaeidae) it looks like european Osmoderma eremita.

I believe Jake's beetle is O. eremicola, obviously a close relatve!

Wade