Methods of Coleoptera breeding

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RippeR, 18.03.2006 17:22

Please share how you breed Cerambycidae
, especially those species that live under the bark.. What you take, what conditions..
Here I find lechinok, you can get a bunch, and 1-2 will be displayed, if at all..
There is a way for larvae in rotten stumps (if not too large), I just chop off a piece of trunk (15X30) with larvae with an axe, or also a piece of stump (naturally from dead trees, I felled them at our landing ) and put them in an aquarium, where the imagos then come out.
And of course, if there are other breeding methods, as well as other beetles, then let us know!

This post was edited by RippeR - 03/18/2006 17: 24

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18.03.2006 22:31, sealor

I once found in an old rotting poplar a few larvae of bronzes, at that time an unknown species. It was at the beginning of March, when they were still in hibernation, and not only them. I put the larvae in a half-liter jar, covered them with not very finely ground rot from the same tree, and filled them up to half the jar. They woke up there and by the beginning of summer, in my opinion, pupated and came out bronzovki-aurats. I once changed the dust to fresh because the larvae ate it.
But the main thing was that for some reason I took with me a large piece of that rotten wood, eaten away by holes, and put it in the room...
Oh, how many all sorts of insects and spiders "exotic" I have a few days later in the room pyavilsya, it was something

I didn't try to display barbels.

19.03.2006 15:45, RippeR

I also had occasion to breed and breed tropical bronzes (Gongolese), but then I got tired of it, I wanted something new.. And that's when I realized how easy it is to breed bronzes. All that is needed is preyushchy leaves or sawdust from the tree where the larvae were found, and then mix 3 parts of this with 1 peat and 2 earth, all this in the aquarium, and leave it to lie (with the larvae of course). After some time, they will pupate and come out bronzes. It is sometimes necessary to spray water so that they do not dry up there, and the process will go faster. I.e. this is the minimum care that guarantees the removal of bronzes.
Barbels are more difficult to deal with, they have no legs, it is more difficult for them to move and they do it more slowly, so you have to tinker with the temperature and humidity so that they do not wither and rot, so that they feed, and in general find a place to pupate. Of course, for larvae that live under the bark, you can't take a segment of the trunk, you need to collect the bark, and then come up with something else to fill the space where they will crawl.. But what to take specifically, and what could be replaced??

21.03.2006 11:42, Dmitry Vlasov

There are quite a lot of problems with breeding xylobionts, I tried to breed several dozen species from barbels, goldfinches, bark beetles, tree weevils...
General rules:
1. Take larvae of older ages, and after overwintering. At home, wintering is very difficult to do if there is no separate refrigerator.
2. Take with a certain amount of substrate for feeding larvae.
3. I usually take bark or wood (pieces with larvae), fill a glass jar (0.5 or 1 liter) and close the PET lid. To control humidity, periodically open and dry. if the larvae are not infected with parasites and fungi, then up to 20-40% metamorphose to adult. Usually, a higher percentage of excretion is rare.
If a pupa is found, I put it with the remains of the pupal cradle in the match. boxes and in the same jar.
Indoors, development may be somewhat delayed due to the lower temperature compared to the street, but on the balcony, overheating may occur and the larvae will "cook".
And so you need to fill your hand and constantly try to find the right conditions.

05.05.2006 14:45, Guest

I live in Kiev, in our district(Darnitsa) pine-oak forests (i.e. outside the city limits). In the forest, there are sick or dried oaks, sometimes felled or tilted. The larvae are located in the lower part of the trunk less than a meter from the ground. But more often they are in the underground part of the trunk. It is also found in oak stumps, if the stump is a little soft on the outside and has taken rot. You need to dig out part of the stump with a shovel and try to break off or chop off pieces. In the leaning dry oaks there are larvae for sure. Only they are very gentle and you need to be as careful as possible when getting them out. Even with careful delivery, waste can also occur. Sorry, but I think woodpeckers eat more.

05.05.2006 15:07, guest: vladimir

Yes, I also forgot, in our forest, sick and old oaks are cut, and the wood is stored in stacks, sometimes the cut oaks remain lying on the ground, then rot, become covered with moss. So immediately after cutting, there are a lot of trunks with hollows in the stacks, and in them there are a lot of larvae of Netocia lugubris and especially Cetonischema aeruginosa bronzes, which I have kept at home for 2 years. They reproduce well in the insectarium, but without feeding the larvae, the beetles get smaller, and maybe also because there are so many of them for a small volume of the insectarium. 7 larvae still live for a year, but I can't determine whether it's a rhinoceros or a deer. Larvae are 8 cm long and thumb-thick.

10.05.2006 9:42, Autok

The dung beetle did not come out of my back yard, but was taken by an adult imago on a forest road in August last year. He is very timid in the insectarium and constantly gets out, then buries again. I didn't come out for weeks in the winter. For the beetles, I use a mixture of oak leaves, rotten oak wood, and fresh oak sawdust. The insectarium is closed with a lid with a hole of approx. 80x80 mm., tightened with a fine mesh. I give honey in a stump with a notch, it should be up to the very bottom, otherwise the larvae pull it under the ground. Insectariums are placed in the kitchen, where the temperature is approx. 23 degrees. Bananas, also a bed on the stump. Netocia lugubris bronzes like honey more, although they eat bananas, and Cetonischema aeruginosa bronzes like bananas more, but they almost don't eat honey.

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05.09.2006 17:12, Necrocephalus

Anyone who has experience in keeping and breeding ground beetles of the genus Carabus-please share your experience! I want to try keeping (and possibly breeding) C. excellens in captivity. First of all, I am interested in the following question: are carabuses required to develop diapause, or can they be active and reproduce all year round in the appropriate light, temperature and feeding mode? After all, there is a summer generation of carabuses in nature, which goes through a full cycle of development at positive temperatures-maybe if you arrange an "eternal summer" for beetles, this will not affect them in any way, and they will live, breed and reproduce in a cage regardless of the time of year outside the window?

I will be grateful to anyone who can say something on the topic.

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