Rhinoceros beetle care sheet

Rhinoceros beetles are certainly among the biggest  favorites as regards the rearing of insects at all. Their large size (more than 10 cm large generally are quite common and longevity is directly ideal for breeding. Breeders often compete who is more of an individual which breeds.

In no way differ from the equipment used for the rearing of cetonidae. Rhinoceros beetles are usually active at dusk or after dark and is therefore not necessary for  them to have light sources. Breeding containers must be generally slightly larger dimensions than in the case of cetonidae, for reasons of substantial size imag (e.g. for the genus Dynastes need a terrarium of the size of about 80x40x60 for one pair). Also, the food should be nutritionally more nutritious. For example, you can Feed them Beetle jelly.

Breeding substrate is very similar to that of the substrate for the breeding of cetonidae, only is usually required to have a higher amount of decayed wood.

The larvae of dynastidae are quite lazy and they behave very well in larger groups. Don't hurt each other, although it cannot be ruled out damage to other larvae in the search for suitable food. In the third instar the larvae are quite the ravenous and consume massive amounts of substrate. It is appropriate to provide them with supplementary food in the form of fruit, leaf lettuce, etc..

For a rhinoceros beetles create a cocoon-like cetonidae. Unfortunately, however, very often, these cocoons are not as strong as the cocoons of cetonidae and is necessary to be careful when handling them. Cocoons may be placed either vertically or horizontally (watch out if manipulating  make sure that the tampering was filmed). move into separate containers larvae and taken it to be large enough. If the container is not sufficient, while the larva creates a cocoon, and the pupal stage, but males are unable to fully develop his horn and are then variously deformed or with a small corner. Some breeders of this problem by creating artificial cells for rearing cocoons. You usually create different tubes or from green gardening materials intended for flower arranging.

Adult individuals, it is appropriate to act only in pairs or groups of 1.2 or 1.3. In the presence of more males in one call these constant fighting and often leads to damage, or death of one or even both males. The males of dynastidae are very territorially formation and it is therefore good generally do not disturb, as males then become aggressive  and can kill or harm a female (for example, it is known more cases where male and female was completely crushed him to unleash a more powerful sound or weak draught). A total of sensible solution is to treat the males and females separately from leaving them together only to breed. The female need for high-quality food, laying on a rich proteins (usually not enough for them to just fruit), and it is therefore good to feed her beetle jelly with high content of proteins.

Rhinoceros beetles are mostly relatively easy to medium difficult, only relatively few species requires some more complex conditions for rearing (usually some type of wood is unavailable or extraneous to the substrate for the laying of eggs). Unfortunately, however, their development often takes several years. For beginners are very appropriate to the genera Xylotrupes, Allomyrhina and Dynastes. These houses are very attractive due to the size and easy of individual species. According to my experience, are most easily kept species:

Xylotrupes gideon

Dynastes hercules

Dynastes tityus

Allomyrina dichotoma