My Stag Beetles

[I_love_mantids]

Hey everyone!

Here are some pics of my Stags!

 

[Ranitomeya]

Nice pair of Lucanus capreolus.

 

[I_love_mantids]

thanks!

 

[I_love_mantids]

I also have another female and a lucanus elephus larvae

 

[Ranitomeya]

I have some Lucanus elaphus larvae that're taking their sweet old time. I also keep Dynastes tityus and Dynastes granti.

 

[I_love_mantids]

Wow! you have a big beetle collection! My larvae has been a larvae for a long time.

 

[I_love_mantids]

stags are my second favorite insect!

 

[Ranitomeya]

It's pretty rewarding watching them go through their life cycle--even if it can be kind of slow. I try to look at it as being that the longer they take to mature, the longer I get to keep them.
I try not to keep too many of them--it gets difficult finding enough wood and making enough substrate for them to breed in when living in a relatively dry area with no large stands of old trees.

 

[Termite48]

I still have one remaining larvae of Hercules hercules in his last stage before pupating. Nice looking Lucanus sp.!

 

[I_love_mantids]

You have hurculese hurculese?!

 

[agent A]

i catch dozens of adult capreolus between may and july

they are awesome

 

[I_love_mantids]

you catch them?! to me they are super rare even to buy!

 

[agent A]

I go around my lawn with a flashnight between 10 and 11 at night and they r everywhere

want some in june/july?

 

[happy1892]

I go around my lawn with a flashnight between 10 and 11 at night and they r everywhere

want some in june/july?

Do you find any other Lucanus and other stagbeetle genera? Such as Lucanus placidus? http://bugguide.net/node/view/4180/bgimage?from=48

Dorcus brevis. I failed to keep them. One female laid eggs in a few oak wood with the white fungus but the white fungus died and the larvae died. Next summer I will keep them in ventilated container outside.

 

[agent A]

Do you find any other Lucanus and other stagbeetle genera? Such as Lucanus placidus? http://bugguide.net/node/view/4180/bgimage?from=48

Dorcus brevis. I failed to keep them. One female laid eggs in a few oak wood with the white fungus but the white fungus died and the larvae died. Next summer I will keep them in ventilated container outside.

I find curecus piceus larvae in logs a lot

 

[happy1892]

I find curecus piceus larvae in logs a lot

I have a friend that might want to get Ceruchus piceus (if he has not already).

His facebook

https://www.facebook.com/alan.jeon.5

 

[happy1892]

I found a stagbeetle in pine wood today!

 

[happy1892]

Found another yesterday in pine wood. They are probably Lucanus elaphus because a friend says that L. elaphus might be the only USA Lucanus that lives in pine wood.

 

[I_love_mantids]

L. Elephus are my favorite.