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[09.04.15]

I ordered a pair of DHH (minor male- 98mm) on Friday last week from Japan and it finally came today after parcelforce managed to muck things up again. The pair still seem to be inactive as neither of them were interested in the jellies or banana I had offered them and dug down after a while. I'm looking forward to getting some decent sized 1st generation adults from these two!

[09.04.15]

Here's the unboxing video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZW-SznoJM[/youtube]

[09.04.15]

A few pics taken on the phone of the 98mm male.

IMG_2548 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_2551 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_2553 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_2554 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[15.04.15]

The pair feeding on beetle-jelly.

IMG_2748 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[04.05.15]

A short video recording the male stridulating. They do this by rubbing the elytra on a roughened patch on the propygidium (Jarman 1974).

IMG_3262 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_GOJl5-5g[/youtube]

[07.05.15]

A few pics of the female. You can see how hairy she actually is in the 3rd photo!

IMG_3859 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_3853 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_3839 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_3841 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_3820 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_3824 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[14.05.15]

The male lost his thoracic horn from a nasty fall after flying into a bookshelf. Poor thing. :'(

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmjh_Vv7h_A[/youtube]

[21.05.15]

A video showing the ventral surface of the abdomen beneath the wings.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNGzHkjeqQ[/youtube]

[29.05.15]

I checked the laying tank today and found 27 eggs.

IMG_4153 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_4156 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[01.06.15]

I saw a worm in one of the pots containing the eggs so I tipped the substrate out and saw that two eggs have already hatched.

The one in the first 2 photos hatched recently while the one in the 1st photo must have hatched sometime in the last 3 days as it's head capsule already has some colour to it and I can see some substrate in its gut.

IMG_4240 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_4241 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_4248 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_4247 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[04.06.15]

A female in the progress of laying an egg/compacting some substrate.

In the Dynastes hercules thread on Bugnation:

agrius wrote:....maybe thats what they do. dig a vertical tunnel, lay an egg, come up, move to another spot on the rotten log.

Bahamut wrote:...the description that you (agrius) give is the typical egg laying behaviour. Usually females tend to wander around in the substrate digging until they find adequate egg laying locations. They use their hind legs and body to compact the substrate around each egg after laying it.

IMG_4297 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[08.06.15]

Just tidied everything up... and from one female over the course of 3 weeks, I've had a total of 45 eggs laid so far.

3 larvae (separated from the rest at the bottom), 39 eggs and 4 others I accidentally squashed as they were freshly laid and very fragile.

IMG_4474 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[16.06.15]

Here's my male (98mm when his thoracic horn was still intact) in comparison to a plastic copy of another male which was approx 145mm which I got in Japan just over a decade ago.

What a massive difference.

IMG_4568 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[21.06.15]

The L1 larvae are fattening up nicely.

IMG_4847 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_4840 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr

[13.07.15]

Found the first L2 larva today.

IMG_5623 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr
IMG_5624 by Richard Nakamura, on Flickr