June Bugs for dinner or no?

[stacy]

Just caught 5 outside fighting for the female in the bunch.. Can the mantis eat this guy?

 

[sueb4653]

I dont know if they can eat but I remember those things when I lived in Canada very annoying at night LOL we dont have them here in Colorado

 

[stacy]

I cant stand them, sure don't want to release, especially since she has to prego by now :s

 

[twolfe]

I feed June bugs to my larger adult species such as Rhombodera. But what I call a June bug looks nothing like your ten-lined June bug that you have on the west coast.

 

[womantis]

our "june bugs" here in the sf bay area are brownish/amber - at least that's what i think they are - and i have no love for them as well! they swarm at night and are super annoying..

 

[agent A]

I feed June bugs to my larger adult species such as Rhombodera. But what I call a June bug looks nothing like your ten-lined June bug that you have on the west coast.

Tammy, here lucanus capreolus r called June bugs, is that the same where u r??

 

[brancsikia339]

June bugs for us are phyllophaga, Anomala orientalis and Rhizotrogus majalis

 

[twolfe]

Tammy, here lucanus capreolus r called June bugs, is that the same where u r??

Interesting. Those also are not our June bugs either. A while back someone else posted a green june bug. This prompted me to do a search. I came across an article titled "What is a June bug"http://thedragonflywoman.com/2011/06/14/what-is-a-june-bug/

What we call a June bug in Minnesota/Wisconsin looks like the second photo.

 

[Ntsees]

Where I'm at, I have seen the brown june beetle, the fig beetle, and the 10-lined june beetle. As for the topic, I don't feed these june beetles because they are just too large for the mantids I keep. Somehow, the birds love these beetles though.

 

[stacy]

Well the crickets really enjoyed eating the June bugs lol

 

[JSaff86]

they will eat them but you have to pull there back shell / wings off because there raptors might have a hard time gripping it. they still might eat them anyways but it makes it easier for them to get to the soft chewy parts :devil:

 

[Rick]

Yep. Some mantids will have trouble getting through the hard outer exoskeleton but large ones should be ok.

 

[JackTopus]

here in LA i get both the big green and small brown beetles in summer time. the green ones love our fig trees -_-*

i never thought of feeding them to my mantids. i would like to give that a try now. they would be much easier to capture then flys

 

[Crazy4mantis]

I've seen the lined ones in LA.

 

[Chrisv8855]

My friends giant Asian went at it with a rhino beetle.both were very strong but the mantis killed it! It took a while for he mantis to get through the armor but once he did it was smooth sailing from there! Awesome fight though! 

 

[BigDazz]

What are those big black ones with the shinny green wings that seem to be blind a bat... They run into everything lol... In L.A. we call them June Bugs but I don't think that's right... Could be wrong though.

 

[CosbyArt]

What are those big black ones with the shinny green wings that seem to be blind a bat... They run into everything lol... In L.A. we call them June Bugs but I don't think that's right... Could be wrong though.

From the description it could be several various ones, take a look at the ones below and see if you find it.

• Green june beetle (Cotinis nitida)
  
• Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica)
  
• Fig beetle (Cotinus mutabilis)
  
• Ground beetle (Calleida punctata)
  
• Tiger beetles (Cicindela sexguttata)
  
• Caterpillar hunters (Calosoma sp.)
  

There are others of course too, but that list from your description seems to be the most common ones.

 

[Maeraxya]

We get lots of fig beetles here in LA,  and yes they must be blind or stupid as they run into everything. One got caught in my hair once. ><

 

[BigDazz]

@CosbyArt like @Maeraxya said the Fig Beetles are the ones... They run into everything lol