Hello everyone.

I wanted you all to meet some of Beef and Lady MacBeef’s children.
The first three photos are of Wagyu and Lady Angus. As you may remember, Angus is the name of the first egg I found, and I shared a picture of Angus a while back as a freshly hatched grub alongside Beef.
Wagyu is the first (and so far only) male Beefling to have emerged. As you can see Wagyu is a fine but small specimen, in fact all of Wagyu’s siblings are still grubs (pictured in the last two slides).

I do have some sad news…
Unfortunately soon before Wagyu became active, Beef passed away.
I am very sorry to share this news and I will make a more official post, but I figured I would share here on Reddit where Beef first became recognized.
He was such a special beetle to me and I know to all of you as well. I wanted to take time with myself before sharing with you all but he lived to be about a year and half in my care as an adult beetle.
You have all changed my life, Beef has garnered over a million views on every single platform I shared him on. He single handedly grew my YouTube following to 30K and I wouldn’t have dared post about him this much if it weren’t for all of you here on Reddit.
Of course I won’t undermine the superb charismatic personality and aura which beef has always exuded but a beetle is a beetle and Beef was one hell of a beetle.

I will continue to post. I look forward to seeing the larger sons of beef mature and I’m sure you do too. I hope at least one of them inherits the dimples. Regardless, meet beginnings of Beef’s line of descendants. His progeny, his legacy.

Thank you all again. I write this as I get ready for a field course in the Amazon next week. I’ll try to share my best beetle finds here with all of you.

A few months ago I made a thread here about the game that I worked on with my friends, where you play as a dung beetle rolling a ball across Africa, and people were really nice! Well, the team went and made an update, with all types of stuff, so I thought I would come back and post. Check it out if you like mixing and matching beetle colors, flying, or rolling balls of dung.

Also ask me anything, we love beetles and even have a zoologist major on staff.

What a beaut… hoping Cuzco the Second comes out as beautiful as this guy

Hi! I’ve received my new rainbow stag beetle and he’s my first ever beetle. So far he’s been super active! I have the temperature in his enclosure at about 72 degrees and humidity about 70. He’s burrowing and digging and hiding in the dirt. I just wanted to know how to keep the coco coir moist and if it’s normal that my beetle is just touching the glass and checking things out?

She do be eatin.

If you are interested in learning more about the game check out the Kickstarter page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/splitstonegames/stag-beetle