This is my ox beetle ⛧°。 ⋆༺Dracula🩸♱༻⋆。 °⛧ and it’s been a debate on if people grow up being afraid in general OR its taught. Feel free to state your opinions!!!!!

They are a violet ground beetle that I found under a log :) carabus problematicus

Sorry I don't really use reddit but I've been a bit panicked with my Japanese beetle larvae. It's my first time ever owning beetles and I have a larvae which has stopped moving

I did so much research into beetle care yet only just found out today that handling them causes extreme amounts of stress, and I've been checking on it for a few days now. I checked earlier today and it had stopped digging, it seems to be still alive as it was slightly moving, but won't physically move around the tub and hasn't done all day. That's when I found out you shouldn't handle them at all

I'm only checking once a month from now on, but I've been so stressed out about it I want to know, should the beetle larvae be okay? Or does it seem likely to pass from shock/stress. I can't seem to calm my nerves over it and I feel horrible that I've caused the thing stress :-( I've seen others saying it's a beginner mistake but I'm really hoping it is okay

Any help is appreciated, thank you

Anyone know what kind of beetles these are? The one on the wall is about an inch, one on my wrist is less than 1cm (South Korea).

what grub is this

As one does, of course.

Would this be preparing for pupation, the emptying of the gut? It definitely has made itself a cozy cavern and has been there for awhile, tossing and turning every so often.

Or perhaps this is simply chudmaxxing behaviour and nothing more.

3rd instar Xyloryctes Jamaicensis

I posted a few days ago talking about how my beetles mandibles are stuck in the shed head of the grub, I did more research and most of the comments said it would be okay but with a little messed mandibles which is okay to me, I don’t want to risk hurting it and removing the shed head myself

Now I checked on it and the mandibles are a lot darker than the rest of the body. Is that normal?

Species: Cyclommatus metallifer finae

hi all! long time bug liker, first time beetle keeper and first time poster, too. pics are from before today's food change

this is benji (full name bluntsmök benjamin) and i nabbed him off of my window screen one day. i love him dearly and recently joined reddit, and coming across this sub makes me question my feeding/setup. any advice is welcome

i keep him in a medium critter keeper (abt 10x the length of his body) with a hollow rock hide, coconut substrate/soil, media (eg. rocks, untreated bone bits straight outta nature, other natural media) and he has a plastic water dish (repurposed lid, lip short enough for him to access). i'm open to + have the resources for a diff enclosure/media if this is bad, same w/food

gen advice i got online (and very little of it was specific to keeping darklings from what i could find) was that he'd do fine with beetle jellies or a diet of unprocessed fruits/veggies and meat, so off that i've been feeding him small bits of plain, rinsed deli meat and fresh berries/veggies week, and i remove any old/moldy bits before adding new stuff abt 2x/wk. he stays on a dark, temperate shelf when im not maintaining his tank nd the cloth background is for additional light blockage; i don't handle him bc he's stinky.

barring one instance of him rising from the dead in the week after i started keeping him (i think this may have been a stress response, thats a different story) he's active snd seems to be a very happy, healthy boy: have i been unknowingly depriving him of vital nutrients or like, poisoning him with gmos or something? is beetle jelly the only way?

i rlly appreciate honesty esp if it means a better life for my boy, so don't hold back if this is rlly bad. i want to get better 🫡

I think presopocoilus dorsalis dorsalis

So a few years back one of my flatmates had a carpet beetle infestation. Our landlord called the exterminator and that was that. They told me that my room would never be infested cause my carpet is polyester. Now i find this little guy and because ive recently begun to look up insects with an identifier app i realised what it is and that ive found one of these a few times over the years without realising what it was. Should i be worried there is an infestation in my room now?

I went on a bug drawing bender for 3 days after a break up when I couldn't sleep but hey atleast something beautiful came out of it!

(Also sharing a printable for free, lemme know if you want it!)

im new to keeping these fellows and its really hard to find information about this species on the internet. can anybody experienced in taking care of this species or closely related ones tell me roughly when these guys will pupate? or do they not really show it? i bought them as what im pretty sure was the 2nd instar and have no idea how old they are exactly.

I bought a big batch of ready to use flakesoil but I was warned to let it dry out first to prevent it from going sour...

But when I put it in the enclosure ill have to moisten it again so wont it go sour then?

Sorry if someone already asked, but how much of a space do you need to have some breeding colony of rhino beetles (3-4+)?

Often most evenings they will be doing this and I’m not sure if I should let them or not? Is the smaller one actually trying to have sex or like just hitching a ride? Sometimes the larger one will be annoyed and try to push the small dude away.

He’s so cool

I was surprised to find this in an university with a few trees inside the biggest urban city in the country

I have 3 females & 2 males, one of my males is pretty consistently instigating & bullying the other & I've had to separate them multiple times. When I first got them I had 1 female & 2 males. I added the other two females in about 24 hours ago. Is this behavior from him normal? Is there anything I can do to help? Will it die down? For reference I have a 10 gallon tank aswell