New Grain-Inhabiting Beetles

 Hello everyone! Welcome again to another blog post. Today, I have just got two new species of grain-inhabiting beetle species. 

They are both commonly found as pests in grains... as the name suggests. But some people in the hobby do keep them, and I find them very interesting. So let's get into it.

This one is (maybe..?) not really one of the most popularly kept grain species in the invertebrate hobby, but some people like Kyle from Roach Crossing who has been keeping and breeding them.

These guys are the Greater Grain / Maize Weevil, Sitophilus zeamais. Very similar to the S. oryzae I showcased in one of the previous posts that I made, because they are in the same genus ahaha..

Anyway, here they are. Also very beautiful like the oryzae.



Sitophilus zeamais

I am currently keeping them on dried maize corn as a substrate in a small 4cm tall by 3.5cm wide deli container (This might change in the future, same applies to the next species).

Very basic and simple to care for. No special heating, just room temperature :D

Here's a size comparison of Sitophilus oryzae and Sitophilus zeamais

Zeamais are slightly larger.

Here we have Oryzaephilus surinamensis, the name is basically a combination of S. oryzae and surinamensis roaches lol

But the thing is, they are suuuuper fast and breed very fast too. They are basically the fruit flies of the grain-inhabiting beetles. 😂

Regardless, here's what they look like.




Oryzaephilus surinamensis 

It is fairly hard to get a good photo, because they are very fast as mentioned before.

They are for now being kept in the exact same setup and container as the zeamais, except the substrate is raw barley.

Anyways, that's all for this post. Thank you for taking your time to read. Bye! 👋 

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