This again is an older article, but still very valid, something that I am learning every day in my breedings. One thing I would like to state here is: It is normal to fail breeding certain species. Some species have very specific requirements that we don’t know, for others we might not have the rights […]
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The Breeding/Rearing of Dynastes hercules hercules by Kay
This is a very interesting report, which was written by my friend Kay the Guru. It deals with the breeding of Dynastes hercules hercules. 1. Introduction Hello Friends! My name is Kay and I am a beetle breeding/rearing hobbyist from Japan. First of all, I would like to tell you about a brief history of […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 7: Weight scales and conclusions
This is old data, but nonetheless valid. Should I start breeding Dynastes hercules again, I would make sure to record the data for the larvae. Or even better, if you have data of your larvae, and want to share it, here would be the perfect place. I am giving you the weights of the larvae, […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 6: Subspecies
At the time I originally wrote the breeding report, there have been only 7 subspecies of Dynastes hercules. Nowadays, I lost track on how many have been added, but will hopefully find the time to read that up. Subspecies in Dynastes hercules can be differentiated by the form of the horns in the males and […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 5: Tips for bigger imagines
1. As I mentioned before horse dung should lead to good sizes in Imagos. I mixed in about ten percent of dung to some of my larvae, but I think it should be more to get recognizable results. 2. Always change your substrate before it is all eaten up. Too late change of substrate and […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 4: Maintaining imagines
After Hatching of the imagos, it takes some time for them to mate. As sometimes males are very aggressive and even attack the females, I would suggest keeping them separated for some time (1 to 6 weeks, whatever, depending on the case) If mating should not work out after that time, you could try a […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 3: Larval maintenance
Keeping the larvae together is possible, but the containers usually are too big, because you need about 10 litre. substrate per larvae. Although the larvae do not seem cannibalistic, sometimes they hurt each other. This usually happens during the moulting process, when the larvae is soft and vulnerable. Because I am one of those persons, […]
READ MORE »Dynastes hercules breeding and keeping report – Part 1: The substrat
This article has been migrated from my old pages, and I will update it, once the migration is over. Luckily there have been a few advances in breeding of Dynastes, even so the basic principles remain the same. I guess there are already many breeding reports for this species, so one might ask, why another […]
READ MORE »Recent breeding successes
Hey there, this is the first post at the new Domain beetlebreeding.ch. Have been rather busy, as a lot of beetles started to hatch out recently. Had a lot of troubles with odd sex ratios, e.g. 10 larvae turned into ten males and nobody had females available, but well. I am still trying to figure […]
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