The last elephant beetle in my care ♥️
He took about 3 years to grow as a larvae, and unfortunately only lived a month as an adult.
I had 6 elephants in my care from that batch. 2 have pupated last year (2 years as larvae) and lived about 3~ months as adults. Unfortunately I only have the male from saved as the female was in a lay box (with unfortunately no eggs to show) and grew over with mold.
The last 3 unfortunately didnt make it. 1 died to a badly constructed pupa chamber and sustained incredible deformities that I have never quite seen before. The other two lived up to 3 years as larvae as well, however failed to make pupa chambers altogether and passed away despite my best efforts to help.
This guy at least grew a much more impressive horn than the last years male, which is quite interesting.
