Diet
The remains of a female H. illatus. I found her in my house July 30, 2022, when I had been active with a blacklight in the backyard trying to attract bugs. She had a crack in her pronotum, but she was still alive. I put her in a tank with another male and female H. illatus. On Monday morning, I found one of the other beetles eating her remains; I didn't get a photo of that but this is a picture of what was left. I've put the remains back in the tank in hopes they'll come back so I can get a picture. I don't know if she died before they started eating her or if she was just incapacitated. A screenshot from a video. When I put the dead beetle back in the tank and they came back immediately to eat more. A female H. illatus eating a crushed boiled corn kernel. Inspired by their enthusiasm for dead insects, I started feeding them freshly killed mealworms. They seem to like this food a lot. The pair of adult beetles would go through 2-3 mealworms a week, which is a lot of f...