Post by Bugman on Jul 26, 2012 4:05:47 GMT -8
Hi everyone
I would like to tell you how I breed species of the genus Lucanus:
It is very important that you can fill at least 25 cm of substrate into your breeding container.
I put 5 cm of earth on the bottom and I lay big pieces of white rotten wood on it. Then I put about 10 cm of Flake Soil (fermented wood) on this. The rest is filled up with humus and rotten leafs. It should be kept humid and cool at about 15-18°C.
I feed the beetles with beetle jelly.
After the beetles die, I wait another few weeks and search for larvae. Searching for eggs is rather dangerous because they are very sensitive to pressure.
I keep each larva in a container of 500 ml - 1 litre with pure Flake Soil. A japanese friend said, that protein is not necessary to get big imagos. The beetles normally hatch after 2 years and become active during early summer of the third year, when they are kept at 15-18°C. When they are kept to warm the larvae could die or you will get small beetles.
The picture shows a freshly hatched male of Lucanus maculifemoratus maculifemoratus
I would like to tell you how I breed species of the genus Lucanus:
It is very important that you can fill at least 25 cm of substrate into your breeding container.
I put 5 cm of earth on the bottom and I lay big pieces of white rotten wood on it. Then I put about 10 cm of Flake Soil (fermented wood) on this. The rest is filled up with humus and rotten leafs. It should be kept humid and cool at about 15-18°C.
I feed the beetles with beetle jelly.
After the beetles die, I wait another few weeks and search for larvae. Searching for eggs is rather dangerous because they are very sensitive to pressure.
I keep each larva in a container of 500 ml - 1 litre with pure Flake Soil. A japanese friend said, that protein is not necessary to get big imagos. The beetles normally hatch after 2 years and become active during early summer of the third year, when they are kept at 15-18°C. When they are kept to warm the larvae could die or you will get small beetles.
The picture shows a freshly hatched male of Lucanus maculifemoratus maculifemoratus
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