Recently I started to notice some large beetles in my fly traps, before I solved the pest problem. From photo identifying it seems the majority of them are American carrion beetles.
I emptied one of my fly traps into a container and captured six live beetles, and had about a dozen dead ones. Seems four are the carrion beetles, and the other two I'm not sure (perhaps newly molted adults?). One of the unknown has a red thorax instead of yellow, and it is shaped differently - the other seems to be solid black.
Odd it seems I have two mating beetle pairs; however, I know some of the dead beetles mated and laid eggs as I have found some of the fast larva hiding/digging within the old manure (I was not able to capture any to photograph).
At the moment I moved the beetles into a habitat for observation. Anyone keep these beetles? Due to their food source I doubt I will keep them, as the smell of rotten meat is too much.
I emptied one of my fly traps into a container and captured six live beetles, and had about a dozen dead ones. Seems four are the carrion beetles, and the other two I'm not sure (perhaps newly molted adults?). One of the unknown has a red thorax instead of yellow, and it is shaped differently - the other seems to be solid black.
Odd it seems I have two mating beetle pairs; however, I know some of the dead beetles mated and laid eggs as I have found some of the fast larva hiding/digging within the old manure (I was not able to capture any to photograph).
At the moment I moved the beetles into a habitat for observation. Anyone keep these beetles? Due to their food source I doubt I will keep them, as the smell of rotten meat is too much.
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