Bronze beetles

EMNIP-specifically, eudicella are baptized as you like and at any opportunity, I once even cherished the idea of heterotic larvae of unreal taste and dimension - the product did not work out, but I spoiled enough of the material - I had to feed both pupae and beetles later.

EMNIP-specifically, eudicella are baptized as you like and at any opportunity, I once even cherished the idea of heterotic larvae of unreal taste and dimension - the product did not work out, but I spoiled enough of the material - I had to feed both pupae and beetles later.

Can I tell you more about "the product didn't work out"? That is, there was no "output" of hybrids, or they simply did not turn out as we would like? In principle, I don't mind "playing" with hybrids. At the same time, I can also study the genetics of beetles (I'm only familiar with feline). But I would like to start learning from other people's mistakes, i.e. what pitfalls can we expect? (well, infertile offspring, or maybe imago underdevelopment, or something else...)

Yes, I can't remember the details anymore, it was in the mid-noughties.
The point was that I planted different eudicellae in the hope that the larva would be particularly large and / or fast - growing-bourgeois wrote in some places that the larvae of hybrids turned out to be larger and developed faster than pure forms. I didn't care about Imago, the goals were purely utilitarian
But in the end, they turned out to be the most ordinary larvae, and then there was a wild re-sorting of them - some of the imagos were crooked-oblique, some-physiologically normal, but outwardly-purely bastards in the literal sense of the word-although, undoubtedly, thick and colorful
I didn't have enough conscience to release such a thing, so I disposed of it
That's it

I didn't have enough conscience to release such a thing, so I disposed of it
That's all

Well, it was necessary to continue working, maybe the first-generation hybrids were not happy, but who knows what would have happened in the future
Okay, let's see. They will reproduce, maybe I will leave a few larvae. Although... yesterday there was already a desire to give up everything. When cleaning their place of residence, I had to put them in one container for just 5 minutes. After that, I spent half an hour airing the room. It was the most natural gas attack... Although someone once assured me that they do not smell like our domestic bronzes...

I wonder what hybrids will turn out...

Pachnoda abyssinica
Can anyone tell me if it's a male or a female? I'll post the second one later.






This post was edited by Svetlana1973 - 14.11.2012 06: 34

Pachnoda abyssinica
Can anyone tell me if it's a male or a female? I'll post the second one later.

Judging by the absence of a longitudinal furrow on the abdomen-female

Judging by the absence of a longitudinal furrow on the abdomen-female

So that's how they differ... Thank you very much!!! And then honestly, pakhnody first and I already broke my head all over. So the second one is definitely a male (it has a depression in the center of the abdomen). But just in case, I'll post a photo tomorrow (they've already been buried today, I won't bother you).

It is necessary to look at the last sternite of the abdomen - if there is a strong dotted line, then the female, if weak, then the male

but I'm going to breed potosia affinis because they are very rare here, I want to increase the population
in the summer, I caught 3 things, the males died somewhere after a month of capture, and the female lived until September, now a bunch of larvae, and yesterday I found the first cocoon))