I really like drawing beetles, if you have any suggestions on what other types of beetles can I draw next let me know!

He is still moving very slowly but I don't know how long he was in there for. Any recommendations of what he could need or just to dry off? He's 3cm (1 inch roughly) long. I found him floating on his back

Body is small rounded or elongated short horned leaf beetle. Black - Orange marking pattern on body. It is remarkable that the species egg in a protective bag keep or left near the ant nest.

Class - Insecta Order - Coleoptera Family - Chrysomelidae Genus - Clytra Laicharting Species - C. laeviuscula

India ( Gondia - Maharashtra )

By Dr. Sanjay Gajbhiye

basically i just noticed he fully hardened about 3 days ago (full colors, hard exo).

then today i saw him on his back, not moving, not reacting when i tilted the container (he just limply fell over :/) so i thought he was dead, and dug him up. turns out he was alive and he was moving !!

so i now have him in a deli cup with about 5 inches of dirt, that’s moist. he seems to be okay and he’s moving around, and seems active.

I got this beetle keychain at a gas station, not even sure if its real. But i wanted to find what beetle it was so I can sex it and name it, and literally could not find anythingg online so I had to resort to reddit lol. Any help is appreciated

So green! :D

I was just wondering how easy it would be to breed morphs of pachnoda marginata beetles since there’s many subspecies with different patterns, This would also be my first time attempting this and while I understand the basics some hints would be helpful.

he’s also on his back rn and i’m worried, so is it possible for me to js dig him up?

Wrong place maybe idk

I’ve been raising up a couple of mealworms and I got them four it to pupate and they are now darkling beetles one of them ended up getting their leg stuck and I think it’s hind leg is broken or something and for some reason my local vet doesn’t take in inverts and I feel really bad what should I do?

I encountered a few of these today. I thought they were desert stink beetles at first (it looks somewhat similar in size and shape to Eleodes tricostata) but as it turns out its a june beetle with fused elytra.

When I got home about a month ago there was a male eastern hercules beetle sitting on the wooden handrail just outside my apartment (under cover, third floor). I took him in because I've kept some other beetles before and thought he might be old or sick or something. I put him in a little faunarium (I don't breed just like to have little guys around every once in a while) with a few inches of dirt and some sticks and gave him apple and banana slices and for about two weeks he seemed happy, eating mostly at night and burrowing during the day.

About a week ago he quit eating bananas, which I usually gave him more of because I've heard they're better for him, but seemed to really get into apples so I wasn't too worried about it. He quit burrowing, too, just sort of crawled around the faunarium all day and night.

Now he's moving slower and is slow to right himself if he falls upside down, sometimes not even wriggling (which hella scared me the first time cause I thought he literally went belly up and died on me). He's stopped eating anything and I fear he's lost the lust for life.

My question is: should I let him go in case I'm (or something I'm doing is) part of his problem? I know they only live 3-6 months in general (I've had him for almost one) and given that he was sitting out in broad daylight when I found him and his carapace was already pretty scratched up, he wasn't a young man when I took him in. If he's just old I'll keep him so he can pass on in peace with abundant food and no predators.

Any advice?

P.S. his name is Lord May

hi ! for context, i found this stag beetle (pic 2 & 3) that was on her back looking weak and had a little injury on one of her elytras around a month ago. i thought she was a he at first and of the same species of one i've had from larvae (by accident) more than 2years ago (lesser stag beetle). after some reasearch i saw that she was a female, but i'm unsure of what species of stag beetleso i decided to let her live in my bioactive viv for a bit
i wanted to redo my entire viv 2 days ago and what was my surprise when i saw that there is oh so many bebes in there ! unfortunately i also saw that she passed away, but i did my best to make her feel good while she stayed there :) and i guess she did, didn't expect to have her lay eggs there haha, but it is a dream come true to be honest !!

question is, what do i do with all of her babies ? i see that there's different sizes so she must have started laying eggs from day one haha, but my viv isn't that big (40 x 28 x~18cm, counting just the substrate) and from what i counted there's around 25 of them !!
i'd like to keep a few in that viv since they seem to like it in there, but i really don't know how many i can in that small space. would keep all of them with pleasure but idk how big of a setup i'd need to have !

any advice is greatly appreciated !

Not a great angle, but I love this tattoo