Wood - food for beetle larvae
 
Composition:
White rotten wood decomposed by fungi.
 
Moisten the wood depending on how it is used.
 
The white rotten wood is especially suitable as larval food for the rearing of giant and stag beetles, but also some species of rose beetles, e.g. Protaetia speciosa jousselini.
 
It is mainly used for egg laying for female of stag beetles, of the genus Dorcus, Lamprima, Lucanus, Phalacrognathus, Prosopocoilus.
 
The beetle larvae of the rose and giant beetles as well as stag beetles feed on dead vegetable matter.
 
Since the substrate serves as food for the beetle larvae and at the same time represents the habitat for the entire development, the substrate (beetle larvae food) must be available in sufficient quantities in the terrarium and later in the larval container.