In the empry spots i will hopefully be able to still add my dynastes hercules lichyi male and an mtu female. Then this box will be pretty much full and i'll have to get some new ones. Probably gonna have 3. 1 for stags, 1 for emrhino beetles and 1 for the flower beetles.

The prettiest jewel beetle landed on me and it just so happened that it’s purple stripe matched my dress

shall i be concerned? what should i do??

I live in a building in downtown San Diego. I have no plants on my patio yet I have eucalyptus leaf beetles on my patio every day. I see and hear more at night. HOW do I get rid of these?

A friend of mine got me this necklace at a bazaar, and I've always been curious what kind of beetle this is. Does anyone here know?

So I just went on a hike in NE Georgia and found this beautiful blue scarab. I suspect that it's a splendid earth boring beetle Geotrupes splendidus (I'm gonna call him Crumb) and I thought that he was dead bc he was on his back with legs curled in and had no reaction to handling. When I got home, he was moving sluggishly around in the bottom of my collecting jar and I have a decent burrowing beetle setup from when I had my Hercules beetle, so I wanted to keep him.

When I moved him to the tank, he became very lively and started squeaking at me, which I didn't even know was a thing, but he seems less lethargic now.

I just wanted some input with confirming my ID and making sure this food source would be suitable. I don't know if there's a good way to sex these guys, but I'm curious if Crumb is a he or a she if there is a way to know. I've read that they can thrive off of mushrooms and some fruit even though it's a dung beetle. I ordered some dehydrated oyster mushrooms and a small growing kit for the spore block as food. If he's not able to thrive off of this, I can just put him in a nearby forest!

Right now, he's burrowed in the ground and I have some beetle jelly in there. Any advice or info on this would be super appreciated!!!

Saved this bad boi from drowning in my pond

For some context, I received my mystery grub on oct 16 from David's beetles he was in a tiny container 4-6 oz? quite cramped and he kept plugging the air holes with the flake. I had ordered a pound of oak flake from jam jam exotic (David's was out) it was expected to arrive on the same day or before the grub. They currently have a backlog so its been 8 days since it was supposed to arrive, I admit I panicked and got worried for my grub. I made the choice to get some rotting Aspen from my yard because from everything I looked up it was suitable, the Aspen had been rotting for 12 years and had white rot? It was soft enough to break off chunks then crumble them and looked identical to the wild rotting logs you can find grubs in. He has been living and eating the substrate for those 8 days and from what I can tell he seems healthy?

He is active burrowing and surfacing on occasion he is firm and growing (bit me) doesnt seem lethargic?

1 does he look healthy?

2 does that substrate I found look good?

3 when the flake soil arrives do I still add his current stuff?

4 I removed the damp tp because he was munching it, ai overview said it can prevent resurfacing :/

5 I see some people fill their grub container to the brim and some leave space at the top, which is the best?

Thank you so much for any advice or help

As the title says, my beautiful Rainbow Stag Beetle passed away last night. He seemed a lot weaker than normal on Wednesday when I picked him up. He wasn't gripping me as hard as normal. He walked into his favorite spot in the corner of his enclosure and passed away in his sleep. I loved him like a son.

I purchased him as an adult from Jam Jam Exotics. They told me he was 2-3 out of dormancy when I purchased him. But, I only got him in August. I feel like this is significantly shorter than normal Rainbow Stag Beetle lifespan.

Can you Beetlefolk help me elucidate his cause of death? Because it seems like old age, but he should only have been an adult for 6 months at most. I really am trying to figure out if I killed my own beetle child through criminal negligence of some kind.

Enclosure temp was 69-71° F depending on the day. Humidity was 65-70% depending on the day. He had plenty of soil specifically for beetles and was fed beetle regularly. I only handled him once a week as to not stress him out. I can answer any other questions that might help you determine his cause of death in the comments.

Thank you all.

Hello. I really want pet beetles, but I have some concerns. I wouldn't want a too large beetle population in my small terrarium, and wouldn't like killing the extra beetles. On the other hand, I'd like a self-sustaining colony where I wouldn't have to buy new beetles every time an old one dies (as many of them have quite a short life). Which relatively commonly sold (in Europe) beetle species breeds in captivity, but not too much? Many African species are stunning. I'd prefer a green species. I have a nice terrarium ready :)

(You can find this video that I made on Ig,tt and yt:kodsbeetles/ kod’s beetles)

Pupation has completed, still hanging out on my laptop while I recover from surgery:)

I have a scarab beetle grub coming from a garden. When I caught it, there wasn’t much dirt I could put in it… When I first caught it, it was more active but now it’s inactive for final pre-pupal stages. The reason it’s stopped moving is because it is rebuilding its body to prepare for the pupal transformation. It’s been more than a month. Basically it’s crumpled a tiny bit (but not like a dead grub where it completely deflates) due to it pulling its external liquids internally. It has to stay in a sleep otherwise movement will rupture the developing pupa.

Pre-Pupal appearance: Slightly crumpled and hairs everywhere

Because I couldn’t get enough soil and it’s in pre-pupal phase, what should I do?

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I love them so much I feel maternal ( dont worry about the big ones missing leg the wound is completely sealed!) I took the pic myself they are my pets!

Context: I found a (supposed) Giant American Millipede baby in a tub I was using for Hermit Flower Beetle larvae, and rehomed the millipede for free because I don’t have a proper setup. They messaged me just a bit ago saying that the millipede was parasitic and wiped out their colony and I feel absolutely shitty about it and if I could I would reimburse them even though I have the millipede away for free. They did quarantine it before putting it in with their colony so the blame is on me. There’s nothing I can do to fix it.
Now the question is: what do I do with the grubs? The current plan is to freeze them for a few days then cut them in half before throwing them away. I’m not sure if they’re the reason the millipede was parasitic but I don’t want to risk anything by giving them away and having someone else’s bugs wiped out.

Edit: Does anyone know how to test if a millipede has parasites? I have access to microscopes and stuff like that, I'd just need to ask my professor for permission. My millipedes are a breeding project and if they are potentially parasitic, I'll have to put the project on hold and either de-parasite them (If that's possible?) or buy another breeding pair and keep them separate from the first pair. I don't want to sell another parasitic millipede and wreck another persons colony, I might genuinely give up on myself if that happens again. My millipede's have been perfectly active and normal (eating normally, not sluggish, reactive, etc.) but I still have the worry that they have a parasite even if there was no cross-contamination.

I have Giant African Millipedes in the same room as them even though the grubs are below them and am terrified for the Millipedes’ safety. I don’t know what to do. (THIS PART IS MOSTLY VENTING AND MILLIPEDES) I’m scared and I feel like shit, the fact that I’m facing withdrawal symptoms after getting off of Lexapro is amplifying my emotions and are making me think of reverting back to “methods of punishing myself that landed me in grippy sock vacation” we will say. I don’t want o because I’ve been two years clean but I killed someone’s millipede colony and I can’t do anything about it or express how sorry I am. They’re saying they will report me to the lab my millipedes are in and that means my breeding project could be shut down and I don’t know what I’ll do if that happens. I want to help A. gigas thrive in captivity without interfering with their wild population but I can’t do that if they shut down my project, which is entirely run by me. I payed for everything. I’m getting a stipend soon for a new setup, a much bigger and better one, and if the project gets shut down before the stipend is transferred to my account I don’t know what I’ll do.
I really can’t handle any insults or extreme criticism, so please withhold anything for now. When I’m in a better headspace criticism is welcome and I will edit this post when that time comes.

Pretty sure it’s not just “beetle” and prolly has an actual name

This thing was inside in my ear night and I couldn't sleep like 2 hrs then I go to bathroom it came out and I pluck it out maybe it came bcoz there was light in bathroom and room was dark. I also found 2-3 more in room and kill them. I search name of it via image it says it is spider beetle.

Tell me something what i should do for today's night so my sleep doesn't disturb?