Stag Beetles

The food for rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles in wild is sap. However, this is not easy when we care these insects at home. Fruits have long been recognized as an alternative of sap. Commercial insect jellies became available when caring the insects became popular in Japan. In this post, I will introduce these foods for the insects. Topics 1. Fruits and home-made sap 2. Commercial synthetic sap and jellies for the insects 3. Commercial high-protein jellies for the insects 4….

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Amateurs who breed stag beetles have much interest on how to raise bigger adult insects. How to raise bigger adult insects means how to raise bigger larva because the size of the adult insect is determined by the size of larva and never changes once he/she becomes adult. As you can imagine, this is due to exoskeleton of stag beetles. Many trials have been made to raise bigger larva. As I posted on “How to breed larva“, breeding using flake wood or…

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How to get eggs and larva from adult stag beetles is almost the same way as described in “How to care adult stag beetles“, but there are some additional tips. Things to prepare Oak wood that is around 10 cm in diameter (photo on the left: 10 cm in diameter, photo on the right: 30 cm in diameter).     Setting up Dip the oak wood into water for 12 hours. Then take the wood off from the water and…

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Things to prepare Stag beetles, plastic case with a lid, wood chip, wood for feeding, wood for laying eggs, food, spray, and cellophane wrap (or saran wrap) Setting up Once you got stag beetles, you can set up living space for them. Only one pair of male and female or single insect should live in a single case. Otherwise they will fight with each other and shorten their lives. The size of the case is ideally larger than 20 cm…

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