Propagate the stag beetle

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Igor1962, 24.03.2012 20:47

once 5 years ago I decided to get a deer beetle . The best thing to do is to dig a hole in the yard with a depth of 1 meter and 1.5 by 1.5 m around the perimeter, throw it with oak leaves , oak stumps and instill the females covered with a deer beetle . If I had done it right away, I would have already had young beetles. Well, I'll do it this year. As an additional food, I will use a banana, homemade wine - and I don't know what is optimal for a deer-maybe there will be fresh thoughts ???

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24.03.2012 22:06, Pall

once 5 years ago I decided to get a deer beetle . The best thing to do is to dig a hole in the yard with a depth of 1 meter and 1.5 by 1.5 m around the perimeter, throw it with oak leaves , oak stumps and instill the females covered with a deer beetle . If I had done it right away, I would have already had young beetles. Well, I'll do it this year. As an additional food, I will use a banana, homemade wine - and I don't know what is optimal for a deer-maybe there will be fresh thoughts ???

try it with fresh thoughts... maybe they really will

Seriously,
we should have done this 5 years ago.. and perhaps now you would already have imago, and maybe even +3 years would have fed

delov that ...

This post was edited by Pall - 24.03.2012 22: 11

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25.03.2012 21:14, Wild Yuri

In nature, they look for a feed substrate of the right quality: volume, "rottenness", temperature, and in the pit what will they find? "It will be necessary", maybe they will lay eggs. But the larvae will die. They almost have the wrong conditions, "pipe". A familiar entomologist from Vladivostok brought an elm stump with Callipogon larvae to his basement. Already adults. A little extra food - and beetles. As if not so. Half of the larvae were dead, and the rest were dwarfs. The humidity of the substrate was disturbed. Or maybe it's supercooled... In nature, everything is very subtle and complex, and it is necessary to reproduce the conditions for the development of this or that organism, and not try to squeeze it into your own invented or convenient ones.

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27.03.2012 21:08, alex017

Alex, what were the unexpected difficulties???

Absolutely no difficulties at first glance, except for the years of waiting. True, I grew it at home and the larva lived up to the beetle in about 3 years.
At the same time, in 3 years you see it 6 times, if you are lucky, a beetle appears and again you do not see it for a year (so many adults lived without mating)! That's the fun of it)))
6 times - the number of times the substrate was added/replaced. If you are unlucky and you suddenly see a larva unscheduled, then most likely it has received a kick-ass and all your work is wasted. Cannibalism also happens. Which is also extremely unpleasant.
Plus to your troubles, if suddenly udassa does exactly breed beetles that they tend to degenerate. Before my eyes, at this "deposit" of rhinos, the beetles degraded to 2-2. 5 cm! Copies came across smaller and smaller and smaller.... it remains only to remember what monsters I found in my childhood secretly running away to the "chips" (corootval local pulp and paper mill).

As a small tip: get old pulp affected by brown mold (not white!!!!!), or wood with the same mold, but such a degree of destruction that you can break off pieces with your hand, but at the same time that they themselves do not crumble and do not collapse. Keep the humidity down. And what words can't describe. A lot - they will die and a little - they will not die, but they will "lose weight".
Slow them down and check their size. Accurately track the amount of substrate so that the larva does not crawl in the poop alone.
A place with larvae must be constantly warm!! Keep the temperature around 26-27 in the substrate.

In general, I advise you to have some kind of tropical antlers. They are at least visible in the form of a beetle))

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