#Dermestes maculatus

[bugbrawl]

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Why you should vote for them:

Sabethes cyaneus

I mean look at this fancy fellow

Hide Beetle

they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks

#polls #tournaments #bug brawl #sabethes cyaneus #mosquito #hide beetle #dermestes maculatus #entomology

[doobia]

i love when they all come out for water

#taxidermy beetles #dermestes maculatus #ngl idk if thats the right species

[dermestes-vulpinus]

Post informing everyone that I have slightly altered my url

(on account of a proper spelling of an alternate name for my favourite kind of beetle becoming available)

#Whoever has dermestes-maculatus should delete their blog #I deserve it more than them #A voice from the dark

[sims4t2bb]

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#weekly update

[kadavernagh]

It finally happened. The crabs are in the morgue. I knew it was only a matter of time, but I had hoped my anti-crab measures would keep them away. They ate one of my Dermestes maculatus colonies.

I can't simply get rid of them or more will come. How can I keep them out of certain places, though? I can't have them getting into the autopsy suite. They've already made it into my office. I found a crab in my yogurt this morning. It's supposed to be plain, not anomaly flavored.

Dr. Rickers likes them. He said he's going to bring some to his grandchildren. Dawn and Lulu, if you're reading this, I'm sorry, and I tried to stop him.

#starter

[bonefall]

personally for my rewrite,i just decided to explain away the bonehill by saying,"oh yeah,they stole from the prey of bigger animals,like they stole a wolf's kill and picked off as much of it as they could",but according to canon the bones are bleached white by the sun and picked clean???

I wouldn’t get too caught up on details like that unless you want to make a point with them. Rule of Cool is a fine enough explanation because people will bring along their suspension of disbelief! For my rewrite though I probably will canonically make it a mud facade and explain how Tigerstar has been working his warriors ragged for a useless but intimidating vanity project; because that would work really well with what I’m trying to say about fascist machismo.

I may also lean into the idea they’ve been killing foxes and badgers... that would also work well, and be the sort of thing Tigerstar could easily justify to his warriors before he ramps up to just making them break the code.

ANYWAY, I guess in-canon that sort of makes sense? The best way to get bones clean without carrion-stripping beetles is to sun-dry them, and that is the method that’s used when a skull has ‘spoiled’ because carrion-stripping beetles don’t eat rotten flesh. I’m not sure what would pick them clean though... they’re too small to be kept intact.

Hangon let me just google if they actually would have access to taxidermy beetles in england

(30 minutes of googling)

--did you know that there are 700 species of dermestid beetle and a lot of them eat different things? like there’s one that eats violin strings and is called a bow beetle--

(sometimes I find myself on a website where I can purchase 10,000 skull cleaning beetles for 500$ btw, and this is just a normal thursday)

GOOD NEWS! I FOUND THE SPECIES AND THE WARRIOR CATS HAVE IT

Dermestes maculatus is present on ALL continents, easily found in the wild, and the cats could easily keep them fed with a continuous supply of fresh meat.

#Warrior cats #clan culture #TW taxidermy #TW rotting #TW Bones #beetles #idk what else to tag this with #TW a lot of gross but cool stuff #Warrior Cats Vulture Culture

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

what is your favorite beetle

Dermestes maculatus

[headinthebox]

Reminder for people keeping specimens of animals/bugs. Beware of dermestid beetles (dermestes maculatus). Dermestid beetles are an important part of the natural process, since they feed on the decomposing flesh of animals and other bugs. However, if you intend to preserve a specimen, you need to watch out for these little guys.

Here are a few ways that you can prevent dermestid beetles from feeding on your specimens:

1. If you are preserving a specimen yourself, make sure you are removing the majority of internal organs so your specimen does not rot. Dermestid beetles feed on rotting bodies, so as long as you take measures to keep the body from rotting, dermestid beetles will be less likely to feed. This is mainly aimed toward specimens like frogs, birds, bats, anything with large organs. You can usually skip this step if you are preserving small beetles or butterflies, but even some larger bugs like giant katydids need to be cut open and their insides need to be removed. If the removal of the internal organs drastically changes the shape of the specimen’s body, you can stuff the body with cotton and glue the seam shut to keep the shape.

2. If you have a specimen with a large body, but not large enough to cut into, you can inject the body with alcohol. Much like preserving a wet specimen, injecting alcohol into the body of a specimen will help prevent remaining tissue and organs from rotting, and will also help keep your specimen in its pose. However, depending on the size and softness of your specimen, alcohol may not be a long term solution to rotting. Alcohol may need to be re-administered later on to ensure dermestid beetles don’t try to eat the specimen.

3. Freeze your specimens. Dermestid beetles will die after being frozen, so if it so happens that a dermestid beetle or its eggs/larvae have unwarrantedly made a home among your specimen, freezing them for 3-4 days will kill the dermestid beetles. It is always a good idea to routinely freeze your specimens, even if they look clean and untouched. An ounce of prevention.

The photos at the beginning of this post are of one of my luna moths that unfortunately started being fed on by a dermestid beetle. This is the damage of only one beetle, so I’m sure you can imagine what a group of them could do. Please watch out for your specimens, and do what you can to ensure they are properly maintained! Not only for the specimen itself, but also for your own safety. Decomposing animals are a biohazard, and may be a threat to your health.

#if you have any questions about preservation or pinning please send me an ask or a message! i love to talk about it #entomology #dermestid beetle #dermestid beetles #wet specimens #pinned bugs #pinning bugs #bug pinning #taxidermy #collecting #oddities #curiosities #oddities and curiosities #bugs #animals #biology

[cosmicwavelength]

wtf do rich people do with all that money? wtf are you even doing? I’m going to eat your flesh from your bones like a dermestes maculatus beetle you fucker.

#UGH #eat everyone who got rich through the suffering of others #I don’t fuckinf care how much work and effort blood and crybaby tears you put into it. OH you worked so hard to exploit others? wow

[pacificremains]

Enormous wild friend, found on a coyote in the rotyard. This is dermestes marmoratus! Comparison with maculatus below.

#dermestid beetles #vulture culture #oddities #pacific remains

[kedreeva]

I was brought the damaged, decayed remains of an emu skull last week. I pulled off as many feathers and as much dirt as possible, rinsed it, and then gave it to my D. maculatus colony. This was their first large skull job, as they've been fed mostly of freezer-dried steak and occasionally the remains of a few small animals like mice, and once a squirrel. They were all over it immediately, and so funny! All the adults got up onto the cotton and stood at attention like this.

I'd say they did a damn fine job! I will try my best to piece it together a little better, once it's dry from its bleach solution dip, but it was pretty damaged so I don't think it'll ever be real display quality. But still, fun to have and I'm grateful to be thought of when someone has a cool animal skull!

#skulls #vulture culture #dead animal for ts #skeletons #skull #bones #insects #dermestid beetles #dermestes maculatus

[bugbrawl]

Bug Brawl

Why you should vote for them:

Sabethes cyaneus

I mean look at this fancy fellow

Hide Beetle

they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks

#bug brawl #tournaments #polls #entomology #sabethes cyaneus #mosquito #hide beetle #beetle #dermestes maculatus #sudden death

[doobia]

the dermestes are difficult to get pictures of. started with only 10-15 larva in this bin, i now see that many just out eating at any one time so they're definitely breeding

#dermestes maculatus #taxidermy beetles

[paeonia-horse]

Finally got a Hide Beetle under the usb microscope for a video. Been trying to get close up on one for a while now but they tend to not sit still when the camera is on.

#hide beetle #dermestes maculatus #under the microscope #beetle #bug #critter #sorry about the fluff #the dish i picked to put the beetle in was kinda dusty

[zodar]

lovely beetle, beetle boy,

#my art #beetle #dermestes maculatus

[onenicebugperday]

@skull-hoarder submitted: Hello! Excuse me, are these dermestid beetles?

My boyfriend wants to start a colony of dermestids and because of the distance we are I can't give him some of mine so a friend of his told him that he had in his colony of cockroaches and here they are, the only issue is that they look a little different mine and they say that they eat the bran substrate that they put on the cockroaches, is it a misunderstanding or are these bugs rare dermestid that eat bran?

Or are they another type of insect that looks like dermestid or can dermestid actually eat bran?

Anyway, location Veracruz, Mexico

They are dermestids! They look like hide beetles, Dermestes maculatus, to me. I know that some people also keep lesser mealworms in with their roaches, and those will eat bran, but I wouldn't think these guys would. So maybe that person was mixing them up? Dermestids generally eat animal products, so they'd eat dead roaches and molts.

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #beetle #dermestid beetle #hide beetle #Dermestes #larva #congregation