Torynorrhina flammea blue and red type
Short
summary: This
collection is to contain some examples of all species that are bred at the
moment and thus become kind of a beetle breeding data bank with real specimen.
Besides I want to take down exact notes about species, finding place (if known),
generation ( P, F1, F2,...), breeder, peculiarities in breeding, and other data.
It is
important that as many breeders as possible donate some of their dead specimen
of their own breeding. It is
desirable that same species are
donated by many breeders, as there is a great variation in the beetles, for
example form and size of horns,
body size and colouration, even from breeder to breeder. In future, I want to
make some collections that contain every specimen of one breeding population
from generation to generation, in order to show the whole variety of certain
species, including aberrations. Donators will be named in the collection, if
they wish to.
This collection is exhibited in the Museum of Natural History. It is non- commercial and made for scientific research only.
All
information that is given by the donator, like conditions of keeping and
breeding, will be written down and put to the specimen. With a collection like
this it will easily be possible to see under which conditions one can reach
bigger imagos, or what kind of breeding substrate
every species prefers. This is especially interesting, as there isn't to much
written about this in contemporary literature and in my opinion it is only the
breeder, who knows best the conditions needed by the different species. If this
knowledge is shared beginners´ mistakes could be avoided and maybe even the
experienced breeder could learn something.
Chalcosoma caucasus
About the specimen: It
doesn't matter if the specimen is slightly damaged ( missing legs, scratches,
etc.), as long as they are typical for the breeding
regarding size, colour, etc. I'm very grateful, if somebody donates
aberrations from his breeding. If specimen are send to me I'll pay for the
postage.
Aims:
- Kind of a
registration of all species bred at the moment
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Collection of hints regarding breeding and keeping conditions
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Building of morphological collections to show the variability of several
species
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Building of morphological collections to see whether inbreed depression
occurs and what it looks like
Purposes for everybody:
- Data is every time available, just ask me. Maybe I'm going to take it down on this homepage
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Specimen of every breeder would be exhibited in a museum, and thus the
breeder will gain a little of immortality
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Breeder would have the possibility to compare their species and those of
others
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Maybe some more people would get interested in our awesome hobby
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Greenhouses could avoid mistakes by getting information from breeders
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Exchange of information
Idea:
The Idea of building up
a collection, that involves every breeder came up for the first time, when a
bunch of Eudicella smithi males hatched out two years ago and every of them
looked totally different from each other (Colour Thorax varying from green to
orange); horn form and size ) although they were kept under same conditions. At
that time I was very busy, so I didn't really thought to much about it. I was
reminded of my idea a second time when I was wondering whether the colouration
variants of Ranzania bertoloni are local subspecies or if it was possible to
reach every form of colouration breeding these beetles. Nobody I asked was able
to answer my question.
The
final induction to set my plans into reality was me seeing some insect dealers
holding back essential breeding
Information
the customer needs to know. So for example only a few people know that some
species need sand to
Pupate. Not
knowing this customers are wondering, why their pets died spite to “perfect”
conditions.
In addition
to this it simply is interesting when species that disappeared from
breeding, return back and one is
able to find the exact data one needs to breed it, without trying to find it by
oneself. (That for example happened with Jumnos ruckeri)
Pachnoda sinuata flaviventris and Protaetia himmalayensis, P. sinuata flaviventris and Pachnoda marginata peregrina
I'm grateful for every help, like specimen, tips and hints or suggestions and will answer every email.
Thank you
very much for reading
I would be happy if there would be an interest for the same type of collection for mantis or phasmids
Species that are already in the collection and list of the species I'm breeding
Copyright © B.Harink
Stand:
06. November 2007.