I do not remember where I had read the term pet hole, I think it was on a tarantula forum. This brought an intense smile to my phase, as it also describes many of our beetle pets perfectly well. With tarantulas, the especially funny thing is that many of the amazingly beautiful species are what […]
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I have recently started again to breed Odontolabis burmeisteri, one of the emperors of Lucanidae. It’s a majestic species that has the potential to get over 10cm in size, and it is in the more beautiful Odontolabis category, where the elytra are black and yellow. That said, they also have really nice mandibles, so what […]
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Stephanocrates dohertyi were considered an impossible to breed species. I remember seeing single larvae offered for more than 100 DM at around 2000. I think no one ever succeeded in breeding these, and I doubt that anyone ever made it past F1. There were theories that the larvae need a special diet, but in the […]
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This is a short breeding update by my friend Kay the Guru on Odontolabis dalmanni intermedia. I think it is really interesting for several reasons. First of all, Japanese breeders are already quite advanced when it comes to substrates and more and more started looking into temperature effects when trying to achieve maximum size Lucanidae. […]
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Dilochrosis atripennis is a medium-sized flower beetle from Australia. Its size in breeding is around 4 cm. It is considered an easy to breed species. However there are a few points which make this species stand out from the standard breeding process, for instance of Eudicella gralli. I suspect that the original stock of Dilochrosis […]
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Coptomia mauritania fasciata is a beetle species from Madagascar. For some reason most Madagascan species, I was lucky enough to deal with, were very tricky to breed. A long time back I was successful in breeding two species of Bricoptis through a few generations. They were rather productive with high egg numbers, larvae were absolutely […]
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This is the breeding report for Hexarthrius mandibularis sumatranus by my friend Kay the Guru from Japan. Hexarthrius were considered impossible to breed for a long time in Europe, until somebody found out that the females need a protein diet in order to lay eggs. Hence make sure to feed them with protein jellies, or […]
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This is a breeding report for a species that was formerly known as difficult or impossible to breed. I found that if some measurements are taken, successful breeding and keeping of this species is not too difficult. First, I would like to thank Jack Lee (Taiwan), who made it possible for me to get some […]
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This report is based on my experiences according Chalcosoma caucasus in my own breed. I made some mistakes that would have been easy to avoid and that made breeding this species more difficult than it is… I am going to refer to it later on. To begin: I started breeding Chalcosoma caucasus on 12.06.99. My […]
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