Welcome to Ben’s Beetle Breeding Page!
Hunting for insects in India
Hello everyone! At the outset, I would like to give you a short introduction, but promise to leave it at that 🙂
I am Benjamin Harink, now 36 years old and am quite interested in insects and especially in beetles. This website is now more than 20 years old and logically the focus has shifted a bit during these years. Initially only focused on the breeding of beetles, I have included travel reports and a lot of general information about insects. I am quite proud of the online insect museum, a recent addition to which includes the addition of breeding information and links to the species pages.
I have been less active on the web in the past few years, mainly because I was busy with writing a book on beetle breeding. The key idea was to summarize all of my experiences with beetles, and to hopefully make it a bit easier for new breeders to start their hobby. Beetles are fascinating creatures, and we still have so much to learn. I will use these pages to publish more on some new species as and when I get them, and to make sure they can be bred by other people as well.
Greetings to all. Looking forward to hear from you
Hope you enjoy reading through these pages.
Lamprima aurata
Hello
I wanted to take a look at the beetles you have identified from India. Would you share the infor. I don’t want any images. If i do i shall definitely ask you.Chanced on your page when iwas trying to id my stag beetle image.
cheers
geetha
Hi Geetha,
apologies for ultra-late reply. Please do send me a picture of the Lucanid that you found and I will try to indentify them for you.
It pretty much depends on where you found it to narrow down on the potential species 🙂
Looking forward to hear from you
Warm regards
Benjamin
Hi Benjamin
I just came across your website in an online search for possible breeders who can provide us with adult Goliathus goliathus specimens. Over the past three years we have been conducting research on the physiological adaptations that allow the evolution of gigantism in insects. Our focus group is the Cetoniinae beetles since they do represent a range of sizes – from smallish, midsize to the truly giant beetles.
Our work includes metabolic measures of beetles at rest and in flight. X-ray tomography, to look at the beetles internal structures, and also tethered flight experiments in the lab to maintain the beetles’ physical condition and eagerness to fly. Of course the key to accurate and reliable scientific data is to maintain healthy and happy beetles.
So far we have investigated species from the genera Mecynorrhina, Caelorrhina, Dichrinorrhina and Cotinis.
We have suppliers (breeders) in Taiwan and Germany, and a colleague in South Africa who can collect some of the more common smaller species.
However, our German and Taiwanese suppliers have difficulty in providing us with healthy Goliathus specimens.
Would you, or any of your breeder colleagues and friends, be able to help us purchase several true giants for our research.
As a side note, apart from the older taxonomic studies this US National Science Foundation funded project, is as far as we are aware, the only large scale scientific research project on goliath beetles in the world. We hope our results, and the amazing x-ray images, will direct more public attention to this fascinating group of animals.
Thank you
Jaco Klok
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Hello
Dear Sir/Madam,
We wish to confirm with full corporate responsibility, that we are ready, willing and able to transact and sell the commodity of Insects, in good ways also terms & conditions.
The types of insects (orders) are:
Goliathus goliathus
Goliathus rigius
Goliathus orientalis
Goliathus cacicus
Fornasinus aureosparsus
Mecynorhina torquata
Chelorrhina kraatzi
Megalorhina harrisi
Gnorimimelus batesi
Stephanocrates preussi
Dicronorhina micans
Eudicella morgani
Eudicella camerounensis
Eudicella inexpectata
Schultzeorum pseudowoermanni
Gralli gralli
Cyprolais mutica
Cyprolais selene
Cyprolais aurata
Loricara oberthueri
Hornimani hornimani
Hornimani lerui
Cyprolais quadrimaculata
Taurrhina longicepa
Stephanorrhina julia
Guttata guttata
Stephanorrhina isabellae
Stephanorrhina bella
Caelorrhina kolbei
This is the list of insects we have available for export at the moment.
Awaiting your prompt response.
Best Regards
Kima Blaise
Skype adress: sindawabe
Email:sindawabe@hotmail.com
Hey Benjamin
How may I get in touch with you
Joe Nam
Hi Joe,
either via email, which is mentioned everywhere on the page, or on instagram beetleben1.
Cheers
Ben