Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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I know this is very different from my normal videos but I just wanted to show off my beetle breeding hobby and show how gorgeous these beetles are =)!

I breed darkling beetles so I can get mealworms to feed my leopard gecko and bearded dragon (because buying them all the time gets expensive and it’s cheaper to breed them myself)

I only keep the pupa in that container (the mealworms have a much bigger container with way more substrate) so the mealworms don’t eat them, I feed the mealworms but that doesn’t stop them from cannibalizing so putting the pupa in a different container stops that

The couple times I came in with the tweezers was to help the beetle, it had the last bit of shed stuck on it so I gently grabbed the shed and wiggled and tugged on the shed to loosen it

The original video was 20 minutes long that’s why I sped it up