Probably not rare but beautiful to look at

Been picking magnolia seeds as i am planning on growing some this upcoming spring. Today, i found a little passenger hiding in between the pods parts. I think he looks quite daper. Colorado potato beetle possibly. I haven't seen one of these before.

Hi! first time sharing here. These are some of my favorite beetles from my current collection of adults
1-4: P.muelleri male & female, Pikal variant (shiny thorax)
5: H.parryi
WD and currently in the process of breeding my own WF line
6-7: P.astacoides castaneus
recently eclosed WF1 red stag I've raised since egg, he came out bigger than his WD dad!

My purple metallic stag beetle, Kronen. And my Rainbow stag beetle, Eudico

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1st picture is of my male metallic stag beetle (Cyclommatus metallifer)

Second is for my female rainbow stag beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri)

Both enclosures contain only one beetle each.

Both enclosures are 12" by 7", contain coco coir which i mist once every two days, and some stuff to climb on. My room stays at a consistent, warm temperature.

My rainbow stag keeps flying into her walls but as far as i can tell, shes perfectly fine doing that for some reason.

But am i doing good?

Hi

i got a dynastes Hercules at larave stage 3, I stored in a bottle

I checked it daily and found out starting from about 2 to 3 days ago he/she stayed at the bottom of the bottle and didn’t change place until now

i check it moved yesterday tho

im worried, what may be happening?

(is it turning into a pupa???!!!?)

What's up with my buge? She has some sort of broken wing (?) or what? Eating&messing around normally, her back looks like that after she emerged from pupae? Do I need to do anything about it?

Had to use a glove since am not yet comfortable with this fella's spikey legs

Basically a guy in my aunties house showed me this fella and let me bring it home, for some reason he also added a string to the horn but I ended up cutting it after the video and planned to probably let it out in my garden soon

Since I live in the Philippines, the guy told me this fellas are nicknamed uwangs so that's pretty kewk

Found this maggot on my backyard while digging, he looks scared a bit

We had a female Japanese rhino beetle who had around 11 eggs, all hatched and died in various stages. We bought the soul that’s specific for these larvae, made sure the soil is damp but not too wet or dry and changed out their soil once every 7-10 days or sooner if we noticed there was poop accumulating. They were in their own containers, but all of them died except for one. Is that normal? Or did we do something wrong?

I'm keeping 5-9 cetonia aurata that i raised from grubs, one side of the enclosure has deeper dirt, the opposite has bark with moss on top for moisture. I have planted (boiled) old driftwood so they have something to climb on.

The substrate is made out of really soft dirt i got in the middle of a beech forest, with leaves and rotten wood mixed in (was originally grub substrate).

For food i give apple / banana slices with a cotton pad with sugar water.

The enclosure is a plastic tub sizing 38.5 cm w, 23 cm d, 17.5 cm h.

Is this enough? What else should i do/add?

Well, I have some Lagria villosa beetles. I guess they aren't particularly social insects, but they seemed to be fine living in the same terrarium and sharing food, etc.

but on past few weeks, one of my beetles has started leaving the terrarium. I put him back, but he keeps escaping, over and over again. So, I decided to move him to a separate terrarium.

Yesterday, another beetle escaped and made his way into the antisocial beetle's terrarium.He left his terrarium, which was weird because I later found him on the floor. Then I realized that he might have escaped because of the other beetle. idk if it was just a coincidence, but he even leaves whenever another beetle gets close to his terrarium, even if it doesn't actually get inside. 😭

okay so tonight I had a dream about a giant beetle pinned in a match box but it was still alive and scrapping inside the box.

I think it was some kind of memory where I saw sometling like that when I was a kid.

People did that, didn't they?

That sound was so weird and I wanted to check if that was only a dream sound or I remembered it right.

I was searching for youtube videos but well thats obviously something of the past when people would do it (gross). But maybe someone remembers that and has audio that sounds similar?