Apparently, bananas are also good for rhinoceros beetles. You can buy special beetle jelly ( konchuu zerii), in appetizing flavors such as black sugar, “protein,” and fruit (yum!). Food dishes ( esazara)įood dishes keep the beetle jelly from spilling onto the bedding. The branches give the beetles places to hide. Store-bought branches marketed toward beetle-keepers or branches from outside are okay. In addition to basic bedding, beetles also like leaves, logs, etc., all of which can be bought at the store.
For ease, many websites recommend store-bought beetle-specific bedding. Bug bedding ( konchuu matto)īug bedding ( konchuu matto): If not planning to breed beetles, many types of bug bedding are okay. Be sure it is a type that will keep the air inside humid. They are usually plastic and cube-shaped. Rhinoceros Beetle Care Rhinoceros Beetle Materials Breeding case (Japanese: shiiku case)Ī breeding case is Just a normal animal aquarium, like what’s used for hermit crabs. I hope this is helpful to everyone who is looking for information about keeping a rhinoceros beetle pet. So, for at least my own benefit, here’s some information about rhinoceros beetle care that I’ve found from Japanese websites.
Asiatic rhinoceros beetle how to#
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find many resources in English on how to take care of rhino beetles (also known as Hercules beetles). My dream, when moving to Japan, was to keep a Japanese rhinoceros beetle, known here as “kabutomushi” (which means, “helmet bug”). However, don’t worry - it does not affect the price you pay for the product. This means I receive a portion of sales from those links. The most common pesticide is cypermethrin, which has been used to manage the rhinoceros beetle in both nurseries and plantations.This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. The infection symptom of OrNV on the larvae Infected larvae by M. Utilisation of insect-specific Oryctes Nudivirus (OrNV) used the adults as vectors to spread the virus to other healthy beetles. Spraying the fungus solutions on the breeding locations was successful in killing up to 80% of the larvae. Metarhizium anisopliae was found to be a virulent entomopathogenic fungus against the rhinoceros beetle.
The damaged palms exhibited wedged or v-shaped leaves due to boring activity of the rhinoceros beetle. Compared to the chipped trunks on the ground, the dead standing palm attracted substantially more beetles. The practice of underplanting, in which young seedlings were planted beneath poisoned standing old palms.
Rotten chipped oil palm in the replanting areas provides excellent breeding sites for the beetle. The introduction zero burning of old palms prior to the replanting. The diameter of the head capsules was used to distinguish each instar. There are three larval instars, each of which takes 82 to 207 days to develop into pre-pupae. The females deposited about 70-100 yellowish-white eggs, which hatched into c-shape larvae after 8-12 days. The male could be differentiated from the female by having a longer horn. The adult rhinoceros beetle has a cephalic horn and black shiny body that is 35-50 mm long and 20-23 mm in width. The rhinoceros beetle’s entire life cycle spans between four and nine months from egg to adult, depending on environmental factors such as humidity, climatic conditions, and food availability. The rhinoceros beetle has been a major pest of oil palms since the 1990s, and it can be found in all of Malaysia’s states. The rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros, is a Southeast Asian native that was accidentally introduced to the South Pacific regions such as American Samoa, Fiji, Mayotte, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Reunion, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Wallis, and Futuna along with import materials viz timber, habitat materials, and nursery commerce.
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