Hurcules Beetles

OldHag · Mar 1, 2005

Finally got them out of the dirt for a photo opportunity. I got these as grubs.....HUGE grubs

Now theyre HUGE beetles

. The male will grab hold of you and stick you with the spikes on his legs....and NOT let go. Its pretty freaky

The female is a lot more docile.

Enjoy

Wade · Mar 1, 2005

Nice!!! Glad they made it! Any eggs yet?

Wade

OldHag · Mar 1, 2005

Im not sure....the female stays buried ALL the time..I check in the middle of the night and NEVER see her. The male is out all the time...he eats like a pig!! I have to dig up the female and put her in the syrup then she eats a lot. I dont think the male has ever SEEN her... What do the eggs look like?
Do you have any grubs yet?

Michelle

Wade · Mar 1, 2005

If they're together, odds are the male has found her. With mine, it took several months before I started finding eggs. The eggs look like...eggs! Seriously, like little tiny white bird eggs, about 1/8" or so long. The female will usually lay eggs singly in the bottom of the rearing container and pack dirt tightly around them. If you start digging in there and you notice it's tighly packed near the bottom, than chances are there's eggs burrried in there. I usually dig the eggs up and set them up in a seperate container, as the female may accidently crush them when she's packing the substrate. I check twice a week or so by GENTLY digging through the substrate. So far, I've got a few dozen grubs and lots of eggs. I've got 9 females so I should have a nice harvest this year

Wade

Spider-man 2 · Mar 1, 2005

Those are so cool looking Michelle! I wish I could have one!

BTW, Sprocket is doing well and eats like a pig!

Scorpendra · Mar 1, 2005

i wish i had one too, they are very strong for their size and it would be cool to see two males fight over the female.

Alex S. · Mar 1, 2005

Very nice Dynastes!

Alex S.

Mandi · Mar 11, 2005

does anyone have these for sale? i reaaaaaaaaaaally want one

Mantid Mafia · Mar 12, 2005

Way cool!!

Dark Raptor · Mar 12, 2005

They are awesome! :worship:
Large Dynastinae, Lucanidae and Cetoninae (or now Cetonidae) are still rare and very expensive in Poland. I wish to have some of them in my collection

Wade · Mar 13, 2005

Dark Raptor said:
They are awesome! :worship:
Large Dynastinae, Lucanidae and Cetoninae (or now Cetonidae) are still rare and very expensive in Poland. I wish to have some of them in my collection

In the US cost isn't even an issue because the USDA regs make it next to impossible to get exotics at any price. Fortunately, we have some spectacular natives, like the D. tityus Michelle posted pictures of. I've been rearing these for about 5 years now, all from locally collected stock. I found one when I was about six years old, and that was what got me hooked on bugs in the first place!

Wade

Dark Raptor · Mar 13, 2005

Wow, so I see You are in worse situation than me, in Poland. But after joining EU we should expect some similar problems (I know that they want us to register our insect collections). And I hope we will be able to change this new "tarantula law" I wrote about in another thread.

I started my hobby when I was almost in the same age as You. But my first favorite group was order Orthoptera and especially Gryllus campestris. I hope I will be able to continue my work on beetles after writing my master's thesis.

Mandi · Mar 13, 2005

does anyone know where i can get them in the us?

OldHag · Mar 14, 2005

Wade has some...dunno if hes selling or not.

Hurcules Beetles

OldHag

ArachnoHag

Wade

Arachnoking

OldHag

ArachnoHag

Wade

Arachnoking

Spider-man 2

Arachnoprince

Scorpendra

Arachnoprince

Alex S.

Arachnolord

Mandi

Arachnoknight

Mantid Mafia

Arachnopeon

Dark Raptor

Arachnoprince

Wade

Arachnoking

Dark Raptor

Arachnoprince

Mandi

Arachnoknight

OldHag

ArachnoHag