blue death feigning beetle (Asbolus verrucosus)

If you let the adults have access to moist sand, then they will oviposit in it, and the eggs hatch fairly quickly and easily. The larvae also require moist sand as their substrate, and can be fed dead leaves and dog food. So far pretty easy right? Well, when it comes to pupation, that's where most people are stumped.

Inducing mature larvae to pupate before they die off is very tricky, most refuse to do it, even when isolated to small deli cups with a couple inches of moist, compressed substrate, (which works for most species). However, it seems that one person has figured out the trick to consistently getting the larvae to pupate, they need to be isolated like I said before, but need to be kept really warm, temps in the high 80s are preferable. You get the best results when you put them in an incubator.

Because incubators aren't cheap, and the effort taken to rear this species is more work than it is to simply buy WC specimens, there aren't many hobbyists consistently breeding this species unfortunately.