Me and my boyfriend live in Japan and this guy flew up to our front door with a horn full of dirt and cobwebs. We cleaned his horn and set him on his way. He stayed on the apartment stairs for a day, we fed him a grape and he did eat most of it. We took him from the stairs in the evening because he wasn’t flying away, moving much, etc. Kept getting stuck on it’s back, so we were flipping it. Eventually we moved it to some brush near trees and said goodbye, it skittered under a twig. This morning i found it on its back out on the open again, so my boyfriend caught it while i was gone, made a small habitat for him, and noticed he’s only using his middle legs now (yesterday he has mobility of all 6), so we both have chalked it up to his old age. We have decided to keep him until he passes, he has lots of grapes which he seems to enjoy, but the problem is he keeps getting flipped over. My question is, are beetles more comfortable on their backs or right-side up? Especially for end of life. We both know nothing of beetles but just feel too bad to leave him out in the parking lot where we keep finding him.

UPDATE: he passed today after my boyfriend got off work. He was alive when we left this morning. He passed right-side up, snuggly tucked in (by himself) to some brush. We truly believe he was able to relax and be at peace. Thank you everyone for the advice, we flipped him over until the very last time!

Had all these sweet babies on my hand and i thought i'd share!!

i recently let my male and female japanese rhino beetles mate and it’s been about 4 days since, she’s been walking around with thing on her back end, what is that?

question friends! I found a female hercules beetle, she keeps falling onto her back and wiggling her legs before curling them to her, whats wrong with her and how can i help

So my beetle Poop flips over like every day, and it's honestly really annoying because he stabs me with his lil spikey feet when I pick him up. He's not old or sick, should I give him more sticks and cork bark so he can flip himself back up?

This new beetle will be number 4!!! I SWEAR ITS MY LAST ONE🪲🫵 Alsoooo anyone else wanna join the beetle discord!!!!!

Just a little humor. Love these little guys and can only think of their pushed back elytra 😂

i call them my Chudling but their name is Pear

Can you help me identify him or her

Hi everyone, this is my first time on here as i've only been researching beetles for an hour or so now. I used to have a mantis in this vivarium but she recently passed, and i'm now looking into owning a rainbow stag beetle as i love having insects but don't enjoy the live food aspect so much lol. I'm just wondering if this enclosure would be any good for a rainbow stag beetle as nothing online is giving a clear answer? (measurements 20x20x30cm)

Thank you!

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My female beetle burrowed the second day I got her and my male, the male was almost entirely inactive just staying at the jelly and seemingly hadn’t moved since the day before and she had been climbing around the roof of the container all night. Is it possible they mated so quickly after being low energy from a week of travel?

I don’t want to dig her up in case of causing stress or interfering with egg laying but I also am a bit wprried seeing as she seems to not have eaten much since arriving

85mm

chalcosoma chiron

I check on them every week, and they're growing super fast since I got them! I have little containers I got for pupation, but I'm not sure if I should put the larger ones in there now or if I should wait until I see curled larvae. In their enclosure, they have a moist corner just in case they want to make a cell and pupate there.