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MXM, 08.12.2015 1:19

I've been wanting to start something like this for a long time. But as far as I know, most fireflies have a fairly specialized diet in the form of shellfish and worms. That's why I don't consider them. There are also fire-eating nutcrackers, in particular Pyrophorus noctilucus. Information about it was found only in foreign-language versions of Wikipedia. They indicated the size, distribution area and what the imago and larva feed on, it seems nothing complicated. But its content is in the culture, it's good for me if I came across it once - a photo from an American forum and that's it. I can't figure out what's going on, whether to give beetle lovers bronzes, etc., or whether there are any pitfalls in the content. I'm very interested in what's going on here. And no one goes to Cuba, for example, where they are found?

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23.12.2015 19:32, ИНО

I asked about the content of pyrophoruses in insectariums, for some reason no one has ever heard of this, despite the fact that these beetles in the tropics are widely used in biomethod, I don't remember who. In amateur culture, a kind of East Asian firefly is common, whose larvae lead an aquatic or semi-aquatic lifestyle and also glow much brighter than ours. Mostly Japanese and Chinese people do this. As far as I know, no one has brought them to Russia yet. In Europe, this is also not a very popular object.

24.02.2016 17:29, CCR5delta32

I remember thinking about it a long time ago. There are a lot of glowing insects. The only problem is that most of them glow very rarely only in a certain period.

24.02.2016 17:38, ИНО

What are these? The same pyrophoruses glow most of their lives, including the larval phase, in addition they can change the intensity of the glow, turn on and off the lights of different caets, aka traffic lights.

01.03.2016 23:05, Atropos

Vadim Viviani should know the most about the cultivation of glowing nutcrackers.

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