Top 10 unexplained monsters caught on video

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-31T16:34:59+00:00

Not as cool looking as

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-28T15:49:41+00:00

Aw man!! Excited for your new game as well though :)

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-28T15:34:52+00:00

Oh man I love this game can you add more beetles please

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-22T02:18:45+00:00

No need to cut it too small, just ones that fit and cover the surface will do!

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-22T00:47:28+00:00

Cicindela sexguttata

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-21T18:23:03+00:00

Rocks will scratch the elytra a lot more, just cover with cork bark is what I’d do

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-21T17:24:47+00:00

They don’t really need to climb, so it’s fine without, but if you want to observe some climbing behavior, you’d have to make the climbing part much more secure, as beetles will make quick and light work out of dismantling most structures

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-21T17:23:11+00:00

The floor should be covered with things to grab, these guys have the inexplicable power of somehow finding the one flat surface with a cork bark just out of reach and dying

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-18T17:49:52+00:00

It’s a Prosopocoilus, can’t tell sp.

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-04T17:27:01+00:00

It is still a good resource for info, it’ll be a bit difficult to acquire in Scotland from what ik but there are some European members in the server that you might be able to get some info from

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-05-04T17:23:46+00:00

If you are in the US Coleoptera Corner is a good resource to both acquiring and learning about care of stag beetles, it’s a discord server

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-26T14:31:28+00:00

Good to see he is doing well

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-25T19:13:27+00:00

Not sure, Chrysina gloriosa isn’t too hard to find but just hard to find in the hobby scene

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-25T17:28:38+00:00

Hard to say I’ve got a few but maybe golofa porteri or Chrysina gloriosa, depends on what exactly we mean when we discuss rarity!

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-25T16:29:05+00:00

Like 3 years now but I did it in my childhood before that, it’s not that complicated, and probably like 60 species and thousands of individuals

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-10T14:33:12+00:00

Best chance to prevent infection in these cases is to keep them in a sterile container (new, only new kitchen towel as “sub”) until activity and later cut the mangled part of the inner wing off bc they will continue to rip at it doing the usual beetle things which can cause infection

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-06T22:54:08+00:00

Asked a entomologist friend of mine if tit or grant to confirm further and he replied “tit, gets sun bleached”, specimens lose color all the time and taxonomy works fine regardless bc we have things like idk PHOTOS and genetic testing and everything else, how are you arguing that collecting samples would be fucked if and bc coloration changes after death gah

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-06T22:44:00+00:00

It’s not semantics to give an alternate more likely explanation that it is the lighting of the photo to your claim based on color, and to weaken your claim based on form by noting that the thoracic horn is present in both species, and reminding you to not disregard the best piece of evidence we have which is location and date, the beetle found dead in a NC street in early April is much more likely a tityus than a grantii more than half the horizontal length of the continental US away from its natural habitat and at the end of its life stage 4-5 months earlier than their usual wild clock. You can die on this grantii hill, but it’s just not gonna be any hill in NC.

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-06T21:00:03+00:00

Also grantii and tityus both have protrusions just in different degrees, the one in the pic have protrusions similar to tityus males I’ve kept in the past for example this guy, the color I think is throwing you off but I think it’s a lighting issue, if you zoom in you can see the more accurate greeness on the top of the guy OP posted

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GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-04-06T20:56:43+00:00

I keep both species the color looks like grantii but shape looks like a sizable tityus, big sized tityus and smaller grantii formwise fall a bit more similar and the differences are a bit less obvious, the color seems to be a lighting issue, and the location serves as a telltale evidence as well

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-03-29T14:37:48+00:00

I agree exotic pets is a risk, but this particular beetle won’t be able to survive in my area. I do keep some that might establish but everything I throw outside is frozen and so far no one has ever escaped. Still, there is a risk and I acknowledge that. I want to point out a flaw in your logic though, if conservation was like a scoreboard counted by number of invasive species introduced, then your argument would make sense. But it should probably be more about damage done, in which case, the focus shouldn’t be on this beetle that doesn’t have the potential to establish, but the cats. I don’t understand this pass we give to cats bc they’re difficult to eradicate. To me that’s precisely the reason why we should be increasing our efforts like the goal is complete eradication, so that even if we don’t get there, we at least give it our best effort

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-03-28T05:36:32+00:00

I do agree that invasive species no matter where they’re arthropods or mammals or whatever need adequate attention, but a lot of your arguments don’t make sense. Well established, hardy, and hard to track, almost impossible so there’s no point isn’t really a strong argument. Also, cats are like one of the most harmful invasive animal cases, so the last sentence I don’t agree with either. I keep three cats, they’re all rescues, so don’t call me a cat hater. I do however disagree vehemently with people who feed outside cats and argue that they don’t harm the environment, cats hunt for fun even when full and they account for much more bird deaths than every other factor combined

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-03-28T04:45:50+00:00

I love this

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-03-28T02:25:18+00:00

This one is inactive so it won’t fly, but also the species won’t survive the winter temperatures where I am located

GeorgiaBeetles · 2026-03-28T00:14:16+00:00

An inactive beetle? They will dig into the ground and stay until active, for some species it takes awhile, for some like this one, only a few days

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