4. HINTS FOR BIGGER IMAGOS
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 eaten up substrate bring smaller imagos.
3. Try different wood and leaves mixtures. Only as an example: Oak contains Myo-Inositol, which brings good size and growing in Lucanus cervus (Read in KLAUSNITZER, Hirschkäfer, Neue Brehm Bücherei).
4. The finer the substrate is, the faster the larvae seem to grow. (See 1.4)
5. Try to avoid the replacing the substrate with different substrate. (For instance oak to birch and leaves), as the larvae loses weight getting used to the new food.
Please be careful when experimenting and also take a good look at the larvae to see if she stays healthy. Only like that you can avoid losing your larvae. If you have different tricks, please let me know, I am happy about news (Benjamin Harink)
5. List of Subspecies and their differences
6. Weight Scales and Conclusion
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