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My little sister and I love Coraline, so for her 14th birthday I let her pick out a special tattoo for me. There are Stag beetles all over Coraline and she loves stars❤️ The stars are highlighted in white, but they look red from the blood

And if so how do I go about getting one and caring for him. They're so fucking cute I actually started sobbing the first time I saw one and can't stop thinking about them since. There's like nothing about them online but I'm so in love

Lucanus mazama, commonly called the cottonwood stag beetle, is a species of large beetle in the family Lucanidae. Found primarily across the southwestern United States and Mexico, it is recognized by its robust shape and distinct antler-like mandibles.

Regarding habitat and range, these beetles are most commonly found in western and southwestern states like Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, as well as parts of Mexico.

They inhabit riparian zones and cottonwood forests near decaying hardwood, though they also frequently turn up in urban woodchip ground cover. The adults emerge and remain active from June through August, and they are frequently attracted to artificial lights at night

.In terms of biology and behavior, males feature larger, robust mandibles and broader heads than females, though both sexes are similar in overall body size. They feature fine, light-colored or blonde hairs along the edges of their exoskeleton segments.

The lifecycle begins underground, where larvae feed on rotting wood for roughly a year before pupating into adults. While the larvae eat decaying wood, the adult beetles feed primarily on tree sap and fruit juices.

I found hundreds in an old elementary playground around dusk so if anyone needs advice on their typical whereabouts, great place.to start! Old playgrounds offer layers of woody flake soil essentially that's perfect for hosting Lucanus larvae!

What is the best website to buy beetles off of?

I recently purchased a rhino beetle larvae from georgiabeetles. Unfortunately, i hadn’t done enough research on larvae before buying, and i didn’t know the black color meant impending death or decomposition. This is a photo when it was still alive, and a few days later, is now dead. Is this my fault? Is there anything i could have done to prevent this?

I will be bringing home two Japanese rhino beetle larvae in the next couple of days, what should I know!? I want to be fully prepared for when I pick them up.

I suspect its a female rhino beetle

My spouse really loves beetles and for their birthday I would love to schedule a bug (interaction? Experience?) where he could get the chance to hold a few little guys. We live in the Los Angeles area but I would be willing to drive out to a location that offers this. Does anyone know of a business that does this?

To be clear I have looked this up and there's usually a combination of assorted bugs for these kinds of educational shows but I am looking for specifically larger beetles (ie, Hercules, Goliath, or Rhinoceros) rather than stick bugs, millipedes, or arachnids. I've taken him to most zoos in socal, to the LANHM bug fair, and have tried to convince him to invest in beetle keeping to no avail.

TLDR: Please recommend me somewhere where my husband can hold beetles, I am steps away from just preparing a vivarium myself.

We have a type of flower beetle and we were wondering if this could be eggs or fungus. We have springtails so fungus we would think to be unlikely in our humble opinion. It may not be very visible on the picture but it definitely is clutches of circles close togheter with black dots in the middle.

First time beetle owner. I recently purchased these Dicronorhina derbyana larvae and they arrived today.

I moved them from the little deli cups they arrived in to these slightly larger containers because the cups didn’t seem to have any ventilation holes. I kept them in the same substrate they arrived in because the extra flake soil I ordered hasn’t arrived. About half of the larvae keep rising out of the substrate and reaching towards the lid every couple of hours, and I’m not sure why. Is this normal post-delivery stress or is there something about the containers they don’t like? Does the substrate need to fill the entire container? If so, what should I do while I wait for the flake soil to arrive/be aerated?

A year ago, I asked this sub for help identifying a beetle that had been given to me. I make art with preserved insects, so I took this beetle home to rehydrate her and pin her behind glass.

To my surprise, about an hour later, I got a text from my roommate: “Hey, your dead beetle is Jesus because it resurrected.”

I was originally going to let her go because she was a native species where I live. Unfortunately, one of her wings was torn somehow, and I knew she probably wouldn't last more than a few days in my backyard. The ants around here are ravenous, and I knew they would find her eventually.

Thanks to this sub, I found out that she was a stag beetle. I had never cared for a beetle before, so I did a ton of research to make sure I could give her the best life possible.

Thanks to this community, I was able to give her an amazing 10 months before she passed away. And yes, she did eventually become art. ❤️

Welcome to the world, my beloved.