E-mail: Password: Create an Account Recover password

About Authors Contacts Get involved Русская версия

show

Rhino beetle. How to grow a larva?

Community and Forum → Insects breeding → Rhino beetle. How to grow a larva?

Партизан, 22.03.2017 14:16

Good afternoon.
I eliminated an old tree stump at work today. The stump rotted in to the state of "peat" only the bark held. I found rhino beetle larvae (9 pieces) in this dust and how many more migrated together with the dust to garbage bags. Those animals that caught put each in a separate cardboard box and sprinkled this dust without compacting.
Can someone tell me, they really grow up to an adult state, or they are now kaput?

This post was edited by Partizan - 22.03.2017 14: 17

Comments

22.03.2017 20:02, Dmitry Vlasov

Good afternoon.
I eliminated an old tree stump at work today. The stump rotted in to the state of "peat" only the bark held. I found rhino beetle larvae (9 pieces) in this dust and how many more migrated together with the dust to garbage bags. Those animals that caught put each in a separate cardboard box and sprinkled this dust without compacting.
Can someone tell me, they really grow up to an adult state, or they are now kaput?

Are you sure it's a rhino? Are you sure??? Rhinos usually develop in rotten manure, and in rotten wood - bronzes. But both of them can be removed - you just need to have enough substrate in the container and regularly moisten it... And the result-more often depends on the experience of breeding

22.03.2017 22:14, Партизан

Are you sure it's a rhino? Are you sure??? Rhinos usually develop in rotten manure, and in rotten wood - bronzes. But both of them can be removed - you just need to have enough substrate in the container and regularly moisten it... And the result-more often depends on the experience of breeding

Last year, a whole horde of them got out of this stump as adults. True, for some reason everyone died almost immediately.
There is no breeding experience. We'll see what happens. A substrate of about a liter per larva is obtained. Put in the shade in an unheated room. Similar to the larvae of Mayweather, but larger. These should also "hatch" in May?

23.03.2017 6:44, alex017

Rhinoceros beetles feed perfectly on wood affected by brown mold, the color of the tree becomes brown, the wood becomes soft, you can break off pieces with your hands.
I used to collect them from waste dumps.
It is very easy to remove the beetle. Pour this wood into the container, replace as the number of bowel movements increases. Monitor the humidity of the substrate, but do not overmoisten. After mating, the beetles die quickly. They can live up to 1.5 years without mating. After mating and laying eggs, they may behave strangely, refuse to dig into the substrate, crawl aimlessly, and gradually die.

23.03.2017 17:24, Партизан

It's clear. Thank you all very much for the information. I will raise you)) .

23.03.2017 19:48, Dmitry Vlasov

  
There is no breeding experience. We'll see what happens. A substrate of about a liter per larva is obtained. Put in the shade in an unheated room. Similar to the larvae of Mayweather, but larger. These should also "hatch" in May?

I had the only successful experience of breeding a rhino from a larva - three were planted in a 3-liter jar with a substrate. two died, one underwent metamorphosis, but turned out to be a small beetle - "kyushal plekho" ... That is, it is desirable to increase the volume of "food", the time of breeding in "captivity" is not related to the natural process. Rhino beetles in the taiga zone appear in the "wild" at the end of summer and spend the winter. By the way, the same goes for May beetles. I.e. in the cradles, beetles are already in the fall, but they only come to the surface in " May "

24.03.2017 5:47, alex017

I would say that they come out more in July.

New comment

Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments.

* Our website is multilingual. Some comments have been translated from other languages.

Random species of the website catalog

Insecta.pro: international entomological community. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor in chief and administrator: Peter Khramov.

Curators: Konstantin Efetov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Evgeny Komarov, Stan Korb, Alexander Zhakov.

Moderators: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Evgeny Komarov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Alexandr Zhakov.

Thanks to all authors, who publish materials on the website.

© Insects catalog Insecta.pro, 2007—2024.

Species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion, flight time, etc..

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Few themed publications and a living blog.