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Guest, 19.06.2007 16:53

I remembered an old topic that some impolite guest brought up here. Not so long ago, Dmitry Obydov told about his friend, who keeps many insects. Blaps fausti lived with him. So, the beetle lived in the aquarium for 16 (!) years. The owner was so upset when he died that he even buried him. Dmitry can be trusted, he himself has seen this beetle for many years. Who knows more examples of such long-lived insects in the adult stage, please write.

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19.06.2007 18:02, omar

I wrote this

19.06.2007 18:46, Zhuk

I have one Madagascar cockroach for the 3rd year already. Maybe it's because he doesn't move much?

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19.06.2007 19:06, Dmitrii Musolin

A queen ant Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) has the longest recorded adult life of any insect: 28 3/4 years in captivity.

A source:

University of Florida Book of Insect Records
Chapter 34 Longest Adult Life
Ramazan Cetintas
http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/chap34.htm

In general, this is a very interesting selection:

The University of Florida Book of Insect Records
http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/

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19.06.2007 19:41, Охотник за осами

the queen of termites lives up to 30 years!The queen bee lives up to 5 years, the queen ant lives up to 15 years!

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20.06.2007 8:27, omar

Thank you all! I would not have thought that the uterus of our banal Lasius niger lives for such a long time! Class.

20.06.2007 13:53, Mylabris

Bronzes live for a very long time, provided there are no sexual partners - our usual ones in captivity for at least three years. And also in Sharpe's book " Insects "(1901) about a beetle that I read for 12 years, but I don't remember from what family, mottled ones, or something...
If I look at it, I'll write it down.

20.06.2007 14:52, omar

Three years is not a deadline. I have one Upis ceramboides lived so long. But, Ripper, nothing fell off. In general, some garbage. It reminds me of the movie "dumb and dumber": "My parrot was already old, so his head fell off!"

26.07.2007 8:35, Anthicus

Absolutely accurately documented facts about Polposipus herculeanus (endangered blackfin from the Seychelles): the life expectancy of adults in culture reaches 8 years. More info here: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/polposip.htm

26.07.2007 11:43, omar

Thank you, I already know that.

27.07.2007 12:57, Mikhail F. Bagaturov

From experience, I can say that ground beetles live for years (for more than 2 years I keep the Caucasian one myself for the sake of interest), tropical hornbills of large species from those that are bred in captivity in kuchino - 3-4 years (males). Large bronzes, as already noted, including goliaths, can also live 2-3 years.
As for the confirmed data on arthropods in general, some species of bird-eating spiders live up to 40 years.

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10.08.2007 18:01, fly-km

does the Caucasian one eat shellfish??

14.08.2007 11:41, fly-km

eh-eh.... and a 17-year-old tsekadka at the imaginal stage lives long?no one knows?

14.08.2007 12:26, omar

Few. Two or three weeks.

14.08.2007 14:12, fly-km

Thank you...and who howls in the larval stage the most?there was some primitive squad there.... I don't remember exactly..can you tell me?

14.08.2007 14:45, Mikhail F. Bagaturov

does the Caucasian one eat shellfish??

Yes, to everyone in a row. In the season I feed them with bradibens, and in winter I feed them with cockroaches and crickets.

14.08.2007 14:49, fly-km

seriously???
is this not a shellfish eater?or is it a single-generation evolution?

14.08.2007 15:30, omar

Caucasian even eat lizards. Here are the Crimean ones-yes, they prefer snails to everything else. Although these two types are similar in appearance.

14.08.2007 15:32, fly-km

they were even considered subspecies, weren't they?

14.08.2007 15:33, fly-km

a lizard?

I wonder IF it's rotten or alive?

14.08.2007 15:40, omar

Live. As for subspecies, this is only in ancient times. Species clearly differ in the ratio of the width of the base and the anterior edge of the pronotum. The Caucasian pronotum is strongly narrowed at the head. Caucasian is larger and more aggressive, it rarely has deviations from the blue-purple color in color.

14.08.2007 16:42, fly-km

Thank you....stupid question...and what is the reason for the difference in nutrition?

14.08.2007 16:52, omar

It's hard to say. It's just that the Caucasian is more omnivorous, that's all. The question is not stupid, they also eat rotten ones. It's just that it's not so interesting to feed rotten ones.

14.08.2007 19:40, guest: Андрей

I wonder if spiders won't do it? Females of many species of tarantulas live for more than 20 years, a well-known fact is the 35-year-old female Brachypelma emilia. But this is in captivity. What is being done there in nature - the Lord knows.

15.08.2007 9:15, omar

I know about the possibilities of spiders and scorpions

15.08.2007 9:26, fly-km

and where do they get carbohydrates, "vitamins" and so on?

and what is useful in rotten ones?I never understood that.....

This post was edited by fly-km-08/15/2007 09: 51

15.08.2007 14:15, Mikhail F. Bagaturov

Hi!

eh-eh.... and a 17-year-old tsekadka at the imaginal stage lives long?no one knows?

Может они знают:
UTA OBERDÖRSTER and PETER R. GRANT (2007) Predator foolhardiness and morphological evolution in 17-year cicadas (Magicicada spp.). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2007 - Vol. 90 Issue 1: 1-13:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/1...12.2007.00702.x

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17.08.2007 11:55, guest: Brandashmyg

Grylloblattida is a prolonged development cycle of up to 10 years (according to Storozhenko). Considering the incomplete transformation is impressive.

17.08.2007 12:25, fly-km

agree

19.08.2007 12:30, Chromocenter

I read somewhere that beetles that are not woodcutters, or someone else from the "wood eaters" can, getting into dry wood, such as furniture, develop for 40 years! That's right, I read it in Animal Life. Although I trust this book, this fact is somewhat difficult to comprehend: after all, it seems that they usually develop for at most five years...
By the way, don't Mayflies evolve over the years?

19.08.2007 15:44, Ilia Ustiantcev

In my opinion, the mayfly larva lives for 1 year...

20.08.2007 10:31, fly-km

they also said that about cockroaches...
but it doesn't seem to be...I mean, about the mayfly...

31.08.2008 14:40, Андреас

- I saw an abstract image of a ground beetle with the postscript "8 years"in some Soviet book on physiology, in a table devoted to the duration of animal life...
- I wonder-how long does the Caucasian ground beetle live in the imaginal stage?

This post was edited by Andreas - 08/31/2008 14: 46

31.08.2008 17:11, RippeR

in theory no more than a year

31.08.2008 17:25, amara

- I saw an abstract image of a ground beetle with the postscript "8 years"in some Soviet book on physiology, in a table devoted to the duration of animal life...
- I wonder-how long does the Caucasian ground beetle live in the imaginal stage?

O. L. Kryzhanovsky (Fauna of the USSR, 1983) writes: "... in Carabus and other large species, adults can live for at least two years ( and even longer under unfavorable conditions)... "

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13.02.2023 13:57, excellens

and where do they get carbohydrates, "vitamins" and so on?
and what is useful in rotten ones?I never understood that.....

13.02.2023 13:59, excellens

Why, everything is the same as in the living, but you don't have to run after them (spend energy) and it is better absorbed (softer), and it is easier to chew...