A member asks the IB EXOTIC community how to tell male and female blue death feigning beetles apart, with photos of three beetles.

Setup instructions for the IB EXOTIC beetle kit, with the full guide as a downloadable PDF.

1. Unpack your specimen from the Insect Taxidermy package. insect specimen, frame, pins, pinning board, forceps. 2. Preparing Relaxing Chamber. Pour warm…

Hello. My son is looking to get his first pet beetle. What is the best book (or source) he can read to make sure he is prepared before making his purchase?…

Males of most adult stag beetles usually have a pair of large to very large mandibles, and that is how you can differentiate a gender of the adult stag…

Hello! So I received a goliath beetle larvae early June (its now mid november) so its been about 5-6 months and i received the larva as a L1-L2. I'm not…

Setting up moth eggs are pretty simple straight forward. You just have to remember one thing: Ventilation! Unlike scarab beetle larvae, butterfly and moth…

Genus Lucanus is the largest stag beetle genus containing about 58 species with 4 in the U.S. Except Lucanus mazama (LeConte, 1861), which occurs in Arziona…

Latin Name: Xyloryctes thestalus Bates,1888. Size: 20-40mm. Distribution: southeastern USA (Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, and…

Depending on your purpose of rearing adult scarab beetles, setup environment may different. Here I will discuss two basic setup for individual rearing and…

Grapevine Beetle is the US native species of Ruteline scarab beetles. Males are strong yellow colored while females are more brighter, beige-like colored.…

Latin Name: Gymnetis thula Ratcliffe, 2018. English Name: Harlequin Flower Beetles. Distribution: USA (southern states in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida) and…

Latin Name: Orizabus ligyroides Horn, 1885. Distribution: USA (Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) Comment: Adult beetles attracted to light. Although it seems…

Image 1: Feces stuck in Lucanus elaphus larva. When a larva are fed with dried substrate, a feces can stuck in their anus, and this can be very fatal for…

You may experience seeing a dead larva on surface of substrate (and sometimes inside under substrate). A cause of death cannot easily be determined. Here we…

Here we are discussing about what and why you would need an artificial pupal cell. A pupal cell is a spacious room constructed intentionally for larva itself…

Here we are discussing some terminologies you can encounter while rearing scarab beetles. DEVELOPMENT. Life Cycle: A cycle of insect life from eggs to adult…

Mandible, Tooth, Antenna, Clypeus, Compound Eye, Elytron, Hind Wings, Femur, Tibia, Tibial Spur, Tarsus, Claw.

When you rear beetle larvae, you may sometimes notice small to large black or dark colored spots varying in sizes on their body. This is currently known as…

We have successfully bred one generation from a wild collected female of Lucanus placidus. Now, what's next? We will continue to breed this species, and get…