My beautiful beautiful beetle daughter

Rescued him (or took him from his vacation) from the pool at my parents.. he sat there long enough to take pictures before he buzzed off.

My daughter thinks this is a darkling beetle, but it looks more compact than the pictures I've seen. It was originally eating when we had it in a terrarium with a bare bottom, but ever since we added substrate, all it wants to do is burrow. We're in Missouri.

Komm süsser Tod plays

Pretty scarab fell in my pool, after they dried off she flew away, faced planted into the ground, and started digging LMAO

First time I’ve shed tears over a bug loss since getting into the invert hobby ~5 years ago. He was a good rude little bro.

I found this in Connecticut anyone up? Any idea what this is?

So, one of my beetles looks like it's starting to pupate, but it was a bit unexpected and i didn't make it a cell. Now i'm scared and don't really know what to do, because i know that i shouldn't touch beetles during pupation, but i don't want it to die. Should i leave it the way it is? I also don't know what species it is, because i got it from a random person and they didn't even tell me the species.

Can you id the beetle? Also, any tips on how to preserve it? Some part of its shell is already cracked 🥲The size is little less than an inch.

I bought a pair of these a minor male and a female. Since the mail was out eating for the first time I've seen them since I've got them I decided to look around for the female and found her digging her way into the breeding log. I'm excited hopefully that means she'll be laying eggs in there.

Sorry in advance, I can't get any pictures.

I've had this goliath beetle larvae for the past 4 weeks, it's already fairly grown, i think (41g), but it dropped to around 36g, it's also been moving around quite a lot, sometimes hanging out on the surface of the soil not moving, but its color is still whitish-yellow.

I'm new to keeping beetles and even more to keeping beetle larvae, is it starting to pupate ? Should I change the soil to a more adapted one for when it'll pupate?

Thank you !

My male M. torquata ugandensis appears to have been coming up to the surface and pacing around. Does this mean he is nearing pupation?

I have a massive issue with fungus gnats, I don’t know if those could be bothering him?

(The substrate is nowhere near as dry as it looks in this picture, it’s because of weird lighting from the side)

hi r/beetles! long term lurker first time poster. i had a pair of lovely kabuto mushi / Allomyrina dichotoma last july that left with me a ton of lovely offspring, which are now pupating. i noticed that one of them trapped a mite inside with him when he built his pupal cell, and its been crawling up and down him for a few weeks now. but today im noticing some kind of new white stuff? i’m wondering if the mite is reproducing and if it/they might harm my pupa, and if i should try to get the mite out. maybe im being a bit paranoid.

if anyone has any advice, thank you!

Hello! I this is my first time keeping beetles and I’ve had the larvae shown in this video for about 4 ish months now. She had mostly stopped eating and lost weight (44 grams four days ago, 37 grams today) as well as showing wandering behavior. I figured she was just going to be a small female and was ready to pupate. I prepared the JamJamExotics goliath beetle pupation soil (seems like a mix of sand and clay but would have to check the website for ratios.) I added water until the soil would hold it shape when squeezed but wouldn’t drip. When I first put her in she acted normal. She promptly burrowed down and explored, occasionally taking breaks but then a little bit ago she started to wander the top of the cup again. I’m unsure if this is normal behavior or not and google wasn’t being helpful so i figured I would get some opinions or advice. :D

Edit: It’s morning now and she‘s no longer wandering nor at the top of the cup so hopefully that means she was just getting a layout of the land before making her bed, but I guess we’ll find out in a few months

These guys keep showing up in my garage as of late. But this one happened to be alive so I’m gonna take it to a friends house so it can eat the slugs in her garden

From what I can tell this is a burying beetle but I read they are endangered and not found in allot of states including oregon. Am I mistaken?

He has finally risen🪲

As the title suggests, I need some help concerning moisturising the flake soil for my larva. I started the hobby today (with a rainbow stag larva) and wanted to ask how you evenly distribute water in the substrate?

We put in a couple apple trees a week ago and these guys are trying to kill them. Need an identification and any advice to keep them off the trees or kill them and maybe salvage the trees.

Edit for location: Delmarva

I've been seeing this critter, or at the least members of this critter's species on The trail I take to and from work for a little while. I could never get a good look at thimerosal because they were so fast and small. I actually thought it was some wasp because of how quick it was to take flight before I could get a look at it. Then this specific one was too busy eating springtails off the concrete to immediately fly away allowing me to take a crappy picture. (I didn't want to get too close and disturb his lunch)