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Animal Name:	Native Dermestid Colony
Reference Code:	Original Colony
Species:	-- not defined --
Sex:	Unknown
Locale:	South Glens Falls New York
Birthdate:	2/27/2025
Comments:	Not sure why but I have had trouble keeping the non native solid black dermestid beetle colonies alive in the past. So I started grabbing up our local ones whenever I spotted them around the cats food dish on the floor. These are a pest in the house for most people ( if you don't keep a clean house or if you have pet food dishes on the ground like we do. ) They are often called larder beetles. I've never had a problem with them nor seen them anywhere else. I just see a single maybe twice a year always by the cat food bowl. Eventually I caught a gravid female and finally got many babies to raise at a time. All of this colony will be related to that female, the wild male she initially bred with, and a second male I found after she first started laying eggs. They are housed in a plastic container and cannot climb the smooth sides. The container is filled with dry oatmeal and I scatter their favorite cat food across the top. They do have their preferences between the four cat foods I have. Rarely I place a tiny towel dried carrot in there in case they need moisture to drink. So far none of them have passed. The first female beetle is still alive after 6 months. Web sources quote that beetles live 5-6 months so I must be doing something right. None of the babies have pupated yet but there's like 50 of them in there and they're much larger than the adult beetles. (I just read from that I probably need wood for the larvae to burrow into to pupate so I'll be trying that next.) The tiniest baby worms are as small as big springtails so they would make good micro food for dart frogs, my mourning geckos, and other similarly tiny species. Larger worms are similar in size to large Phoenix worms. As the worms grow they gain more and more hair around their bodies which I assume is defense against predators. I have not attempted to feed them to anyone yet since I'm growing the colony. So I'm not sure if the hairs will bother the geckos.

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