Tropical beetle larvae for sale

I have following larvae for sale now

1)  Mecynorrhina ugandensis - harmless massive giant African flower beetles, can reach up to 85 mm, very easy to keep and breed, have massive colour variety, so it is fun to cross breed different colour forms
Larvae from brown-green-orange-white parents on photo below, L1 £3 each and L2 £3.50 each, 10+ available

2) Mecynorrhina ugandensis, L1  £3.50 each and L2 £4 each; larvae from the blue male and orange female parents shown on photo below

10+ available    ALMOST ALL SOLD, only a few L2s left!!!

3) Mecynorrhina ugandensis, orange parents, male orange red with white stripes
 L1 £3.50 each larvae from the parents on photo below

10+ available

4) Rainbow stag beetle, Phalacrognathus Muelleri, L1 larvae £7 each, L2 £8 each 10+ available, these are always in high demand so hurry up.
These Australian beetles are excellent pets as they can live up to 2 years.

Discount on orders of 10+ larvae. 

Some dynastes granti larvae will be available in a few months and a few other species.

Also have trio adults of MU 1 male +2 females. Females are not mated yet 2 weeks old and male is one week old, £40 for all three. 
TRIO IS SOLD!!!
Photo of the trio below

payment by paypal
Please contact me regarding the availability of the grubs at beetlesaspets@gmail.com

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The rainbow stag beetle, Phalacrognathus Muelleri, care sheet

  
Adults

Temperature ~23-28C. 
Humidity: High. 
Can be kept in small containers, if no breeding is required. If you  keep your beetles in small containers, better to keep them individually or at least in pairs, male and female.  The aggressive males will kill other males and the same thing may happen with females: aggressive females may kill other females in a very small enclosure.  For big groups it is better  to keep them in large containers with lots of hiding places created by placing pieces of wood or bark on the top of the soil. The beetles spend most of the day time hiding underground, and often become more active in low light conditions. They will escape if they have a chance, so the box should be kept tightly closed, and a few pen-size holes need to be provided in the lid or the top part in the side of the container for better air circulation.

They feed well on banana or other ripe sweet fruits or beetle jelly.  They seem to like banana more, perhaps due to a high protein content. Some breeders believe that adults of these species require a lots of protein and add some yogurt into the mashed banana.  I feed them with my home-made beetle jelly (http://beetlesaspets.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/jelly-for-tropical-beetles-at-home.html).  

Breeding 

     Initially I had a massive issue with mating my first rainbows. They were placed into a properly organised large container designed for egg laying and after six months of waiting I discovered no eggs:(.  After several discussions on forums I came to the conclusion that the major male (with massive horns), could not simply catch the females which were normally hiding underground. The solution was to place them in a small enclosure with no hiding places and provide food in one spot.  Male normally feeds and guards the food at the same time, so catching hungry female for him was not a problem in the small box. Egg laying setup is pretty much the same as for many stag beetles: decayed oak or beech log partially buried into garden soil or mulched wood. The female burrows the hole inside of the log and deposits eggs, simultaneously filling the hole with mulched wood and with parts of the substrate. If mulched wood or fermented flakes are used to fill the box, the female may lay eggs in the substrate too, normally in the bottom layer. If there is more than one female in the container, they may clean up each others holes to lays their own eggs. After about 3 months logs are carefully split with a knife or a screwdriver and the larvae are removed. Eggs can also be removed and placed in the tubs filled with the larvae substrate. 


Larvae

Mulched white rotten oak will be sufficient to produce minor healthy adults. However, to grow major adults, good quality fermented wood or even better, kinshi substrate, are required. I found the procedure making kinshi a bit disappointing,  as every 3rd tub I made with kinshi was contaminated, and the procedure itself was rather time- and resource-consuming. Some hobbyists use dog food as a supplement to grow bigger larvae, but I did not like this approach, as it attracts parasitic mites. In the late L3 stage the larvae  will create the pupal chamber and transform to the pupa. I found that the rate of survival of the pupa is much higher if pupa is transferred into the artificial pupa container, which I normally make from floral foam. After beetles come out of the pupa, they will stay in their  cells inactive for a couple of weeks and then they will be ready to mate again.

homemade kinshi

To see more photos of beetles, please visit my flickr page at

https://www.flickr.com/photos/radio_ga_ga/

You can also contact me via beetlesaspets@gmail.com regarding any related issue and availability of these beetles.

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Colourmorph of Mecynorrhina ugandensis; Japanese blue male vs green brown yellow female

Last year I cross-bred two green-brown-yellow females with a blue Japanese line male of mecynorrhina torquata ugandensis and left several larvae from these parents for myself. The larvae pupated about 2 months ago and now some of the pupae started to hatch. The result has exceeded my expectation; the beetles came out with the dark green velvety pronotum and  a dark red elytra,  with some white stripes preserved on both the pronotum and the elytra. Below is the photo of the pair of such beetles, male left, female right. Now I am wondering what body colour will have the next generation from these parents, and will I be able to get blue beetle strain back?

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Journalist alleges Mel Gibson is now friendly toward Judaism

Allison Weiner claims Gibson is making amends to the Judaic communityEditor's Note: In fairness to Mel Gibson, we should keep in mind that the establishment media is almost always seeking to smear him and therefore, we should entertain the possibility that the following is only partly true, or perhaps even a complete fantasy. Let us also recall that money isn’t everything and that Mr. Gibson is probably under enormous personal and professional strain and pressure — a talented actor and director who has had little or nothing to do on the scale that he once experienced for decades, and a family life that may still be in shambles. Not everyone can think clearly under such trying circumstances.

Nonetheless, in fairness to the public's right to decide for themselves, we observe that Mr. Gibson is a wealthy man and has the resources to correct factual errors made by Allison Hope Weiner,  the author  of the following essay, if he so chooses. On the other hand, and this is where it gets complicated, it could be that he would not do so because such a correction would only add fuel to the media's "Hate Gibson” fest. Consequently, we should not conclude that if he does not seek to publicly correct or counter Weiner’s supposed recollections, it necessarily signifies that hers is a true account of his statements and activities.

So with those caveats in mind, and wanting to give Gibson the benefit of the doubt, it would not be unethical or unfair to say that if this report by Weiner is accurate in all of its essential details, then it is disappointing that Mr. Gibson would seem to be pandering toward Judaism and donating money to Judaism's “charitable causes," in the manner in which Miss Weiner alleges.

Keep in mind that we are publishing excerpts from her article. Readers may wish to consult her entire essay, which is available at the URL provided below. — Michael Hoffman

(Hoffman served as a volunteer researcher for Gibson in 2003, compiling at his request a dossier on theological matters related to The Passion of The Christ, prior to its debut in theatres).

A Journalist’s Plea on 10th Anniversary of ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ —  Hollywood, Take Mel Gibson Off Your BlacklistSpecial to Deadline | March 11, 2014 http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/mel-gibson-career-hollywood-deserves-chance/
...I’m telling you, my friend Mel Gibson has pulled himself together. He is sober seven years, hitting the gym for a role in an independent film, and thinking positively about the future. It has been a decade since Mel Gibson made The Passion of The Christ and watched it become the biggest-grossing independent film with $612 million in worldwide ticket sales. In the years that followed, Gibson made several comments that went public, made him seem anti-Semitic and racist. They made him persona non grata at major studios and agencies, the same ones that work with others who’ve committed felonies and done things far more serious than Gibson, who essentially used his tongue as a lethal weapon.

...As a journalist who vilified Gibson in The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly until my coverage allowed me to get to know him, I want to make the case here that it is time for those Hollywood agencies and studios to end their quiet blacklisting of Mel Gibson.

Once Hollywood’s biggest movie star whose film Braveheart won five Oscars and whose collective box office totals $3.6 billion...(i)t has been 11 years since he was paid by a major studio to star in a film, and he hasn’t directed a studio film since Braveheart won five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

I came to rethink my harsh assessment after I got to know the man...This crystallized when we met each other’s families. It was hard to blame his family for being skeptical of a journalist, but the issues with my own family were more challenging. Gibson asked to meet them at my son’s bar mitzvah celebration. Imagine the scene: a room filled with Jews. In walks the person who, in their minds, might be the most notorious anti-Semite in America. Gibson attended alone and I can only imagine what was going through his head when he walked into the party...Before the evening was over, he was chatting with many of my relatives, who saw a funny, kind, charming guy and not the demon they’d read about. Gutsier still, he attended our Yom Kippur break fast dinner. Anyone who has attended such a gathering knows there is nothing more imposing than making friends in a room full of Jews who haven’t eaten in 24 hours.

...In his second apology on the anti-Semitic statements, Gibson promised to reach out to Jewish leaders. Gibson followed up by meeting with a wide variety of them. He gave me their names when I asked, but Gibson asked me not to publish them because he didn’t want them dragged into public controversy or worse, think he was using them. The meetings were not some photo op to him, he told me, but rather his desire to understand Judaism and personally apologize for the unkind things he said.

He has learned much about the Jewish religion, befriending a number of Rabbis and attending his share of Shabbat dinners, Passover Seders and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur dinners. I believe that effort, along with our conversations, helped him understand why Jewish people reacted as they did to The Passion of The Christ and why there was Jewish support for the Second Vatican Council.

Gibson has quietly donated millions to charitable Jewish causes, in keeping with one of the highest forms of Tzedakah in the Jewish faith, giving when the recipient doesn’t know your identity.

...I've discussed the Holocaust with Gibson and whether his views differed from those of his father (Hutton Gibson). Just as he refused to condemn his father in that TV interview with Diane Sawyer, Gibson refused to discuss his dad with me. Similar to what he told Sawyer, Gibson told me that he believed that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust...

Read more: http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/mel-gibson-career-hollywood-deserves-chance/

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Double standard in controversy over banned satirist Dieudonné

In the article below, from the front page of today's New York Times, "For Hateful Comic in France, Muzzle Becomes a Megaphone," we find almost all of the tiresome and monotonous tropes and memes that are familiar to students of Talmudic-inspired megalomania, whereby Judaic persons, in this case in France, accuse and judge the gentiles, while Judaic bigotry and prejudice are immune from the hate laws they demand for others.The worry over French-African satirist Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is that the French government's preventive ban on his theatre performances will establish a judicial precedent that will be used by conservative groups, such as the traditional Catholics who turned out in large crowds in Paris to protest a play that mocked Jesus Christ. The New York Times writes: 

“The notion of violating human dignity is claimed by certain pressure groups who want to forbid performances for moral reasons,” she said, noting that a similar argument could be used by the far right to try to prohibit art shows or theater even before a performance because those groups view them as immoral. So far, the French government has refrained from bowing to such pressure, even going so far as protecting audiences from protesters when they object to artistic performances."

The French government not only did not ban Castellucci’s Talmudic play, it protected it and the audience that attended it while suppressing protests by crowds of traditional Catholics. The worry for the Judaic establishment in France, which would like to see more ritual degradation of Christ, is that if Dieudonné's satire against the gods of Zionism and Holocaustianity is banned, it may lead to bans on "artistic expression" of which they approve, such as the aforementioned play by Castellucci.The Times article invokes the "Holocaust" and even Louis Ferdinand Céline, the finest French novelist of the 20th century. (According to Peggy Guggenheim,  Samuel Beckett considered Céline's Journey to the End of the Night as the greatest novel ever written). Because he was a former combat soldier in World War I who became a pacifist opposed to a fratricidal war with Germany, and a merciless satirist of all things Talmudic, his ghost is invoked in order to haunt the mise-en-scène with the terrifying (to the Zionists) possibility that Dieudonné could become the next Céline. The Times concludes their report as follows:

“Dieudonné’s got this constituency out in the banlieues and he speaks to them in code, he doesn’t have to say, ‘The Holocaust never happened,’ ” Professor Hussey said, referring to the poor suburbs often populated by immigrants. “Instead he makes a joke about the Shoah, but the joke is testing the limits of French law.”

The excrement on the face of Christ does not "test the limits of French law." In fact it was protected by that law, so now we know what is sacred in France and what is, in the word of the Freemasons, "profane."For Hateful Comic in France, Muzzle Becomes a MegaphoneMarch 11, 2014, page A1, New York TimesDieudonné at a court hearing in 2013.PARIS — Thirty-eight times in recent years the French authorities have charged the comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala with violating anti-hate laws. The government has urged cities and towns to ban his performances, and some have done so, canceling his sold-out shows. Senior officials have condemned him as an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who is inciting hatred.Yet the campaign against him shows few signs of succeeding. Not only has he escaped conviction in many of the cases brought against him or, at worst, had to pay fines, he has easily circumvented limits on his public appearances via the Internet and social media. One of his videos, posted just in February, a riposte to the Interior Ministry and specifically Manuel Valls, the interior minister, received almost two million views in the first week it was up.Perhaps more important, the attempts to silence Mr. M’bala M’bala seem to have fueled support for him among his core audience: a social and racial cross section of French people who feel shortchanged by a ruling elite.With anti-Semitic jokes and songs and routines, Mr. M’bala M’bala, who is of French and West African heritage, reaches both French Muslims and some supporters of the far right who share his views and sometimes appear with him at performances. He is credited with inventing an inverted Nazi salute known as the quenelle to satirize the French elite, which he claims is dominated by Jewish interests. When a leading European soccer player made the salute after scoring a goal, it attracted a wave of attention to Mr. M’bala M’bala.Determining how far to go in trying to keep the comedian from spreading his vision and assessing how to gauge when those efforts are counterproductive are among the tricky tasks facing the French authorities. At the same time, right-wing populists, some of whom similarly hold anti-Semitic views, seem poised to make electoral gains across much of Europe — and not least of all in France, where the far right National Front has a higher approval rating than the other two major parties.Freedom of speech is less protected in France than in the United States, and there is widespread support for seeking to muzzle Mr. M’bala M’bala. But his case has set off a new debate over the limits of free expression, with advocates for civil liberties asserting that the government risks overreacting and endangering basic freedoms as well as adding to his luster by making him into a martyr. Lawyers say they are particularly concerned that the government has pre-emptively banned his shows.“These preliminary injunctions that have been pronounced against his shows are dangerous not for Dieudonné, but because citing ‘a risk to public order’ opens the way for other similar injunctions,” said Agnès Tricoire, a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and freedom of expression and represents the French League of Human Rights, a group that has a more American and British view of freedom of expression.Ms. Tricoire noted that two of the legal grounds for complaints against Mr. M’bala M’bala are highly subjective: that he is a threat to public order and that his performances defame the humanity of a group or community. He has also been accused of denying the Holocaust — a crime in France — and of inciting hatred.“The notion of violating human dignity is claimed by certain pressure groups who want to forbid performances for moral reasons,” she said, noting that a similar argument could be used by the far right to try to prohibit art shows or theater even before a performance because those groups view them as immoral. So far, the French government has refrained from bowing to such pressure, even going so far as protecting audiences from protesters when they object to artistic performances.Others worry that the “threat to public order” charge could be used more to repress dissent, as it is by some authoritarian governments.Groups that represent Jews, who have been the chief targets of Mr. M’bala M’bala’s routines, staunchly defend the government’s measures, arguing that the poisonous message harms society and undercuts a goal revered by the French — at least in theory — of people from all races and religions living together.Jewish groups also cite the rising number of anti-Semitic crimes in France as good reason to squash Mr. M’bala M’bala’s message. There were more than 600 anti-Semitic acts in 2012, according to the Interior Ministry, an increase of nearly 60 percent over 2011. The sharp rise came after Mohammed Merah, a French Muslim, shot three Jewish children and their teacher, a rabbi, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March 2012. The numbers for 2013 declined somewhat, according to the ministry.There are also ever more anti-Islamic crimes — there were about 200 in 2012, according to the Interior Ministry, up from about 160 in 2011.Some nongovernmental agencies that track anti-Islamic acts cite more than twice that number. One of the most recent occurred in February in a town near Paris, when a pig’s head and what appeared to be pork were thrown into a mosque courtyard. Pork is considered unclean under Muslim law.Recent years have been marked as well by vitriol against other groups besides Muslims and Jews — such as Roma (gypsies); blacks, including the Justice Minister Christiane Taubira; and gays — suggesting a fraying in the social fabric and a rising intolerance.The French are particularly sensitive to anti-Semitism because of the country’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. “In a country where you had the Holocaust on its soil, we have a very different way of dealing with it,” said Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, the head of the American Jewish Committee in France.But she admitted that just prohibiting anti-Semitic speech can go only so far. “If society at large doesn’t ask itself questions about the values of French society and how it can combat hatred of minorities, it will be in vain,” she said.Mr. M’bala M’bala, who has previously denied that he is an anti-Semite, could not be reached for comment. In one of his videos that recently was the subject of a court case, he provocatively called for the release of Youssouf Fofana, the convicted killer of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man who was kidnapped in 2006 by a group known as The Barbarians, who tortured him for a week before mutilating him and leaving him bleeding on a road.Mr. M’bala M’bala charged that Jewish youths caused the death of a Muslim man in 2010, and that there was far less of an outcry than in Mr. Halimi’s case.In another of his popular routines he performs a song called “Shoahnanas” — a pun that in French sounds like the words “hot pineapple.” The word Shoah refers to the Holocaust, and Nana is a slang term for a woman akin to the English chick. The video features a thin, bedraggled man in the kind of uniform that was worn by prisoners in concentration camps, with an oversize yellow Star of David on it; the man jumps around the stage — a puppet on a string to Mr. M’bala M’bala’s satirical commentary.The difference between Mr. M’bala M’bala’s phenomenon and some previous far right anti-Semitic writers is his ability to reach a wide audience. Anti-Semitic views “are not that important until it connects with the masses and that’s what Céline did in the ’30s and that’s what Dieudonné is doing now,” said Andrew Hussey, the dean of the University of London in Paris and a specialist in the history of anti-Semitism in France. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a celebrated French writer and pamphleteer in the first half of the 20th century who also espoused virulently anti-Semitic views.

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