Unusual insects

[dtknow]

Keeping antlions is very easy. For larvae you need only small boxes 5x5x7 cm with dry sand (you can moist it, but most of water they get from their preys). For adults, you need larger tank. I've been keeping them in faunaboxes 20 x 10 x 15 cm. You should remember, just before pupation, to increase humidity and give them something that they can climb on to dry their wings.
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Do you/what do you feed the adults? I'm keeping one larvae right now(and praying it doesn't decide to pupate until I can get another). Also, left to themselves the adults will mate and lay eggs in the sand? Do they need anything to hold onto like mesh netting or branches?

Thanks!

 

[Dark Raptor]

Do you/what do you feed the adults? I'm keeping one larvae right now(and praying it doesn't decide to pupate until I can get another). Also, left to themselves the adults will mate and lay eggs in the sand? Do they need anything to hold onto like mesh netting or branches?

My adults were eating small mealworm larvea and fresh meat.
Last week I've found place where I saw more than 200 larvae (on 2 square meters).
Yes, my adults produced some eggs and left them in the sand. I don't know how important is humidity, I didn't checked this.
Branches are very important for freshly pupated adults. I've lost two of them (they pupated very early) because their wings didn't develope correctly. And remember that they are flying, so some kind of net is also important.

 

[Dark Raptor]

I'm so happy

Finally... Cicindela hybrida offspring. I don't know how many of them I should expect in the nearest future.

(sorry for bad pic, but I used scaner here)

 

[Fluid Filter]

A bug kickn it just outside my window.

 

[luther]

My Wandering Violin from last year. Freakiest insect I ever owned.

 

[Dark Raptor]

I'm so happy!!!!!

Ok. I haven't got digital camera, so I have to use computer scanner... damn

But look at this beautiful beetle... Osmoderma eremita. I get her from the tree that was cut down and taken to sawmill (and probably burned).

I expect more of them really soon ...and in June or July I will release them... because they are protected in all Europe.

 

[Spiderling LT]

nice picture

 

[Phalagorn]

>>Dark Raptor

I´l just love your pictures, very nice specimens you have there in Poland, some of them can bee found in Sweden to...

And here´s some insects (and some spiders) from Sweden!

 

[Dark Raptor]

Phalagorn, your pictures are amazing! :clap: :clap: :clap: ...as usually I love your's P. metallica pics (in the far future maybe I will be able to get one )

In the first picture I see Chrysomelidae specie (I don't work on them, so I can't ID it).

That green one it is Cicindela campestris campestris (Carabidae). Beautifull beetle (I keep and succesfully breed C. hybrida).

Next "green" it is Cetonia aurata (Cetonidae) (I also keep them now). These flies belongs to Syrphidae family.

I won't ID these Arachnids... but the last one looks like Atypus. It is strange, because they live in warmer climate (we've got only few places in south Poland where they live).

 

[Phalagorn]

The last one is Atypus affinis, When it´s warmer I will go out and photograph lots of insects for you!

 

[Dark Raptor]

The last one is Atypus affinis, When it´s warmer I will go out and photograph lots of insects for you!

Thanks! I hope I will be able to get that digital camera again soon.
I think that insects hate my scanner

 

[Dark Raptor]

Now, pictures taken by my friend (special thanks) during our fieldworks.

Epicometis hirta (Scarabaeidae)

Crioceris asparagi (Chrysomelidae)

Meloe proscarabeus (Meloidae)

Mting Cicindela hybrida (Carabidae)

Rhagium inquisitor (Cerambycidae)

Osmoderma eremita (Scarabaeidae)

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[Dark Raptor]

Cossus cossus

That's me... collecting saproxylic beetles in hollow oak

...again... with window-trap.

Collecting Osmoderma eremita larvae from stump (trees were cut 1 - 2 days earlier).

Most of them were dead :evil: ... and this specie is protected in all Europe.

The largest rhinoceros beetle I've ever captured... or was captured by

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[Dark Raptor]

Underwater predators

Not identified dragonfly:

Larvae

Molt

Imago

Dytiscus marginalis larvae:

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[Dark Raptor]

Blaps lethifera

Extatosoma tiaratum.

Aretaon asperrimus.

Epicometis hirta i Cetonia aurata.

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[Dark Raptor]

Blaberus sp. "giganteus"

Blaptica dubia (larvae, female, male)

Gryllus campestris - female

Hylobius abietis - Curculionidae

Epicometis hirta - Cetonidae

Cetonia aurata and Protaetia cuprea - Cetonidae

Xylotrupes gideon (L2) - Scarabaeidae

Still don't know what will emerge from this pupation chambers.

Stephanorrhina princeps bamptoni - Cetonidae

 

[Dark Raptor]

No comment

 

[nomad85]

that was cool.

 

[Fluid Filter]

Death Valley, CA

 

[Fluid Filter]

Washington State
Not sure of the species. It had long long antenna and sounded like a helocopter when it flew.